black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.

Sun Tzu

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.
SUN TZU

Business Defense Enemy Offense Strategy War
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
SUN TZU

Business Competitor Opponent Strategy War
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
SUN TZU

Angry Change Destroy Life Success Time
Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
SUN TZU

Business Condition Constant Strategy War Water
If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.
SUN TZU

Battle Business Strategy War Weakness
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
SUN TZU

Business Defeat Enemy Opportunity Strategy War
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.
SUN TZU

Business Creation Enemy Strategy Strength War
There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.
SUN TZU

Colour Combination Hue Inspirational Produce Seen
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.
SUN TZU

Avoid Battle Strategy Strike War Weakness
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.
SUN TZU

Fate Mystery Opponent Sound Strategy War
When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.
SUN TZU

Army Bridge Business Home Strategy War
The wise warrior avoids the battle.
SUN TZU

Battle Conquer One Liner Strategy Warrior Wise
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
SUN TZU

Body Enemy Float River Strategy War
Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.
SUN TZU

Attach Courage Fire Inspirational Mountain Revenge War Wind Wood
Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.
SUN TZU

Business Himself Principle Reveal Strategy War
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
SUN TZU

Business Enemy Ignorance Strategy War Yourself

Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sun Tzu Quotes