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

Sun Tzu

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
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Battle Enemy Fight Strategy Victory Win
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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Fate Mystery Opponent Sound Strategy War
One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
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Conquer Inspirational Life Success
Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.
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Business Creation Enemy Strategy Strength War
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
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Enemy Relax Settle Strategy Strave Victory War
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
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Army Business Enemy Home Interfere Strategy War
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
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
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Business Defeat Enemy Opportunity Strategy War
Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.
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Business Enemy Gain Strategy Success War
Never venture, never win!
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Business Strategy Success Venture War Win
Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
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Business Defeat Enemy Excellence Strategy War
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.
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Combination Hear Inspirational Melody Music Success
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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Atack Business Opponent Skill Strategy War
If his forces are united, separate them.
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Business Force Separate Strategy United War
If there is disturbance in the camp, the general’s authority is weak.
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Authority Business Disturb Strategy War Weakness
One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
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Fight Greatness Philosophy Soldier Strategy War

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

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