710 Quotes by Sun Tzu

Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.

If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.

Kill one, terrify a thousand.

The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his information, again, that we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy.

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

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

It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

Keep your fiends close and your enemies even closer.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.