Know when to be a warrior. Know when to be a diplomat.
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in reading orderThe greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace.
Make your strategy one of deception—appear where you are not expected.
In war, the way to avoid death is to avoid war.
Do not fight the last war. Instead, let victory follow from your strategies.
The most deadly thing one can do in warfare is to recognize the enemy's strategies.
One of the greatest dangers in strategy is that you become a prisoner of your own habitual ways of thinking.
When you show yourself to the enemy in order to lure him in, you are practicing deception.
You must learn to compose yourself at all times, never be swayed by the emotions of the moment.
Learn to use mental confusion to your advantage; it creates an opening for the unexpected.
The essence of strategy is the ability to foresee what is not obvious.
The greatest generals see what is most likely to happen and prepare for it.
The key in strategy, then, is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to victory.
One of the essential ingredients for success in war is the ability to overreach your opponent's plans and designs.
Appear to follow the interests of others while furthering your own.
The only guarantee, ever, is that things will go wrong. The only thing we can use to mitigate this is anticipation.
Conceal your intentions, disguise your actions, and confuse the enemy.
Keep what you read, not just what you finished.
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