Sun Tzu

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its read more

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance read more

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting read more

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.