“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

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

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him.

All warfare is based on deception.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

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