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Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Sun Tzu

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner.
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Business Chance Death Fight Life Strategy
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
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Battle Business Enemy Strategy Victory War
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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Battle Inspirational Life Strategy Success War
Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
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Business Inspirational Planning Preparation Strategy
In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack–the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.
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Attack Battle Business Combination Strategy War
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
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Business Enemy Ignorance Strategy War Yourself
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
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Business Country Fame Kingdom Strategy War
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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Account Death Importance Inquiry Life Neglect Ruin Safety State
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
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Business Death Destroy Life Strategy War
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
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Business Inspirational One Liner Opportunity Strategy
Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.
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Business Himself Principle Reveal Strategy War
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
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Business Decesion Energy Release Strategy War
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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Ghost Knowledge People Philosophy Spirit War
The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation.
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Army Business Hesitation Strategy War Worst
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
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Business Irritation Opponent Strategy War Weakness
There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.
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Combination Flavour Inspirational Taste

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