Win with ability, not with numbers.

Speed is the best friend of surprise.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle.

The bullet is a fool; the bayonet is a fine fellow.

Rise early in the morning, retire early at night.

-- The man who invented the Sengoku period's model of conquest

He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.

-- A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single prov

The ancients said: after victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

One gun that hits with every shot can match a hundred guns that hit one in a hundred.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

A general must be cautious in five things: reason, preparation, decisiveness, discipline, and restraint.

-- A 4th-century BCE Chinese general and military the

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose