Sun Tzu

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

Sun Tzu

Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them. Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength. Keep your army continually on the move, and devise unfathomable plans.

Sun Tzu

Conform to the enemy’s tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

Sun Tzu

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Sun Tzu

Danger has a bracing effect.

Sun Tzu

Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.

Sun Tzu

Don’t flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

Sun Tzu

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

Sun Tzu

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment – that which they cannot anticipate.

Sun Tzu

Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

Sun Tzu