Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.
– Sun Tzu
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- Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. – Sun Tzu
- To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy. – Sun Tzu
- Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. – Sun Tzu
- To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. – Sun Tzu
- who wishes to fight must first count the cost – Sun Tzu
- One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all. – Sun Tzu
- Great results, can be achieved with small forces. – Sun Tzu
- When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away… – Sun Tzu
- Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy’s fate in our hands. – Sun Tzu
- Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength. – Sun Tzu
- the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. – Sun Tzu
- Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. – Sun Tzu
- When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward. – Sun Tzu
- War is like a fire – if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out. – Sun Tzu
- Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious – Sun Tzu
- Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day. – Sun Tzu
- When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy. – Sun Tzu
- if you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner – Sun Tzu
- You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. – Sun Tzu
- We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. – Sun Tzu
- Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind. – Sun Tzu
- When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION. – Sun Tzu
- Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground. – Sun Tzu
- Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. – Sun Tzu
- Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. – Sun Tzu
- If his forces are united, separate them. – Sun Tzu