Top Sun Tzu Quotes

The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive. Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose co...

Be where your enemy is not.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

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

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.

The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military t...

I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married

Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the s...