710 Quotes by Sun Tzu

Winning isn’t enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent’s strategy.

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.

Knowledge of the enemy’s dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

The Art of War is self-explanatory.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army’s ability to move.

Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy’s condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.

To capture the enemy’s entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.

If your enemy is superior, evade him.