"When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened."

"If a battle is to be fought, it must be planned with precision and executed with speed."

"The greatest general is one who can achieve victory without ever having to draw his sword."

"The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary."

"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious."