The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and blunt you edge...If you keep your armies out in the field for a long time, your supplies will be insufficient. Transportation of provisions itself consumes 20 times the amount transported.

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.

The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.