The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.
Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.
To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.
Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant.
Opportunities increase as they are taken.
The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.