Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Quote by Sun Tzu

Topics: Planning Quotes

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself...

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself...

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is...

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is...

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war...

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war...

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys;...

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys;...

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

All war is deception.

All war is deception.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable;...

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable;...

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the...

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the...

War is based on deception.

War is based on deception.

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

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

You have to believe in yourself.

You have to believe in yourself.

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can...

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can...

Do not press an enemy at bay.

Do not press an enemy at bay.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the...

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the...

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory...

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory...

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

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

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle...

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle...