“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons”

“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”

“Hence a commander who advances without any thought of winning personal fame and withdraws in spite of certain punishment, whose only concern is to protect his people and promote the interests of his ruler, is the nation's treasure. Because he fusses over his men as if they were infants, they will accompany him into the deepest valleys; because he fusses over his men as if they were his own beloved sons, they will die by his side. If he is generous with them and yet they do not do as he tells them, if he loves them and yet they do not obey his commands, if he is so undisciplined with them that he cannot bring them into proper order, they will be like spoiled children who can be put to no good use at all.”

“Sun Tzu Wu was a native of the Ch`i State. His Art of War brought him to the notice of Ho Lu, King of Wu. Ho Lu said to him: “I have carefully perused your 13 chapters. May I submit your theory of managing soldiers to a slight test?”

“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”

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

“One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.”