Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.
Sun TzuThe quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun TzuThe clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
Sun TzuBe the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of commerce and travel. Your occupation of it gives you access to all who border it and all who would covet it. On intersecting ground, if you establish alliances you are safe, if you lose alliances you are in peril.
Sun Tzu