Sun Tzu

Quotes from Sun Tzu.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
- Sun Tzu

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
- Sun Tzu

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
- Sun Tzu

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
- Sun Tzu

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
- Sun Tzu

Quickness is the essence of the war.
- Sun Tzu

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
- Sun Tzu

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
- Sun Tzu

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
- Sun Tzu