“Great results, can be achieved with small forces.”

“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.”

“If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.”

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

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

“If his forces are united, separate them.”

“What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge.”