Sun Tzu Quotes about Winning

In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: for they win in advance, defeating those that have already lost.

If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.

When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.

If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always find a way to win.

Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

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

Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

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.

Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.

Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.

He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

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.