710 Quotes by Sun Tzu

First learn to become invincible, then wait for your enemy’s moment of vulnerability.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then 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.

To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy’s intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.

It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one’s readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one’s self invincible.

If I am able to determine the enemy’s dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack – the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner.

Invincibility depends on one’s self; the enemy’s vulnerability on him.