He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.Sun Tzu
“The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.”
Military strategist · c. 544 BCE – c. 496 BCE
Ancient Chinese general traditionally credited with The Art of War, a treatise on strategy studied worldwide for over two thousand years.
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