Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

Without local guides, your enemy employs the land as a weapon against you.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.