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[Mister Emu]

Quotes from one of the most famous strategists ever(and many think the best).

Frubals to whoever can tell me whom Zhuge Liang was.

 

[Pah]

Quotes from one of the most famous strategists ever(and many think the best).

Frubals to whoever can tell me whom Zhuge Liang was.

Author of "The Art of War"?????


added: nah! that was Sun Tzu

 

[Pah]

Zhuge Liang was an excellent politician, thinker and strategist in the period of the Three Kingdoms. His hometown was in present Shandong Province. He became parentless when still young. His uncle brought him up and he suffered homeless life because of the chaos caused by war. After his uncle died, he took up a recluse life in present Hubei Province for ten years, but still kept a close watch on the state affairs outside. Finally, Liu Bei, the ruler of the Shu Kingdom entreated him out of the withdrawal. For the rest of his life, he served in the Shu Kingdom as the chief military advisor.

Google makes it too easy.

 

[Mister Emu]

Bah to google

and Bah to you for using it

I am however a man of my word.

 

[Pah]

Bah to google

and Bah to you for using it

I am however a man of my word.

Okay then - frubals to everyone who can honestly say they knew the answer without a search engine

-pah-

 

[Mr Spinkles]

"The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win."

I thought pah was right...a very similar quote appears in Sun Tzu's "The Art of War".

 

[Pah]

I thought pah was right...a very similar quote appears in Sun Tzu's "The Art of War".

I wish I were - it sure sounds like The Art of War. But I found a site that atributes it to Zhuge Liang

http://3kingdoms.tripod.com/quotes.html "Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win." Zhuge Liang

Another to Sun Tzu

http://www.afrocentric.info/Mawasi_Company/Mission.html
Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus, the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win. -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

But most of the other google results say Zhuge Liang

 

[Mister Emu]

I got it off quotes.com, but I will probably have to reread the art of war(Master Sun[this is what Sun-Tzu means]) and Mastering the Art of War(Zhuge Liang), because I think it is actually in both. I also want to get The Sixteen Strategies of Zhuge Liang, but it is $75 USD, a little steep for me at the moment.