"If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards vict...
Be where your enemy is not.
More Sun Tzu quotes
"Balk the enemy's power force him to reveal himself.
"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.
"One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
"If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him....
"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
"One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
"If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.
"Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men i...
"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
"When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be ...
"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without ...
"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his n...