Strategy Quotes

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

~ Sun Tzu

The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known, for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points

~ Sun Tzu

if you fight with all your might,  there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner

~ Sun Tzu

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

~ Sun Tzu

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

~ Sun Tzu

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

~ Sun Tzu

There are not more than five primary colors  (blue, yellow,  red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

~ Sun Tzu

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

~ Sun Tzu

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise,  for the result is waste of time and   general stagnation.

~ Sun Tzu

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

~ Sun Tzu

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

~ Sun Tzu

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

~ Sun Tzu

Danger has a bracing effect.

~ Sun Tzu

first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle;  if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

~ Sun Tzu

If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations.

~ Sun Tzu

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

~ Sun Tzu

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

~ Sun Tzu

At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden,  until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

~ Sun Tzu

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

~ Sun Tzu

When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream.  It will be best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack.

~ Sun Tzu

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

~ Sun Tzu

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

~ Sun Tzu

If his forces are united, separate them.

~ Sun Tzu

who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits

~ Sun Tzu

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

~ Sun Tzu

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory;  show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

~ Sun Tzu

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

~ Sun Tzu

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

~ Sun Tzu

So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

~ Sun Tzu

Strategy is about shaping the future.

~ Max Mckeown

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Plan strategically and strike it once to win. You can achieve maximum dues with minimum dice if only you are willing to clearly calculate and throw your efforts with optimism!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

~ Suzy Kassem

It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.

~ Elizabeth George

A dream is the frame or portrait or a construction or focus of one's vision by means of perception, based on what he or she knows and settles within via strategic thinking.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

~ Alan Sheinwald

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

~ Sun Tzu

Strategy without execution is hallucination.

~ Mike Roach

The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we’ve created to get there.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

~ Max Mckeown