Strategy Quotes

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." "Be where your enemy is not." "Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small." "To know your enemy, you must become your enemy." "When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move." "The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." "Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across." "If his forces are united, separate them." "The greatest victory is that which requires no battle." "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." "The key to success is not in the will to win, but in the will to prepare to win." "You either play the game or let the game play you." "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." "His hands can’t hit what his eyes can't see." "The expert in battle moves the enemy and is not moved by him." "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war" "Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will." "We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details." "Vision without execution is just hallucination." "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity"