Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

I have placed my faith in humanity, but faith in the universal becomes meaningless without faith in the individual. – Panchali Draupadi

... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.[2002] p.46

They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.

You… are the symbol of the revolution that will transform Aryavarta; you are the one who has brought us to this.– Panchali Draupadi