Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
SUN TZU
Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
More Sun Tzu Quotes
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Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
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Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.
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The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
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Who wishes to fight must first count the cost
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To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
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Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.
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Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
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If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
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Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
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