710 Quotes by Sun Tzu

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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

Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.

Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills

He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.