The Art of War

“let me ask you this because you quote sun tzu in the art of war there's no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare this is the main thesis”

“let me leave you some words from sunzoo and the Art of War”

“sunzo uh I challenge everybody to get one of those uh teaching books and go through it every now and then The Art of War has always been a guideline for me”

“and he's like you should read this this and he brought me I remember it was like the art of war um with um General Sunzu and he's like these are your people bro you should read this”

“The art of war, right? Yes. The art of war. And I I tell all my in any undercover classes, you got to read that book, The Art of War, because it it was written thousands of years ago, but it'll serve you today.”

“so you need to read the art of war man because you are you are victim to so much”

“Whether Lawrence was aware of this or not, others had presented a similar ideal some 2,200 years earlier, Sun Tzu. The most famous—yeah, exactly.”

“So, yep, Matt, he wrote these books, The Religion War being the one that we're gonna talk about today, and they're terrible.”

“and a lot of Dale's advice is kind of stuff again it's not like necessarily all that problematic and in fact it's kind of like The Art of War and that if you like read it today because some of the things he wrote about have been so like spread so widely you'll be really bored it'll seem it's like”

“Here you have Sun Tzu, who's China's big guru, Art of War, who's talking about how it's really important to disrupt alliances.”

“He is the only translator into English of Sun Tzu who has a distinguished military career, and also, he went on to get a DPhil—it's like a PhD—from Oxford in military history. If you look at his career, he's in China during the Japanese escalation of the Sino-Japanese War.”

“So the Japanese don't have just the one book like Sununza's the art of war or Clausowitz's on war. What they have is Bushido Code of the Samurai.”

“i think um marshall had probably read the art of war by sunsa and he may have seen that same chapter that jumped right out at me the idea that if you're going to win you win the inner battle against self-doubt etc first before you go into that initial engagement the victorious warriors win first and then go into”

“um i think um marshall had probably read the art of war by sunset and he may have seen that same chapter that jumped right out at me”

“I'm playing the the global play the the art of war. I really take the art of war seriously.”

“I'm playing the the global play the the art of war. I really take the art of war seriously. I think that we need to subvert the narrative using mass media. Art of war. You mean”

“I was thinking Art of War would say don't take out everything you can at first.”

“If you follow the art of war, you don't want to play your full hand.”

“I was just looking at my copy of Art of War last night thinking about Donald Trump like he's all about business dealings lying and then doing what you don't expect and all that stuff”

“in fact my high school thesis was on The Art of War by Sanu”

“A lot of studying those principles during high school; in fact, my high school thesis was on 'The Art of War.'”

“i read the art of war and i did a thesis on the art award in high school”

“you know, there's this quote in 'The Art of War,' like 'Make the weakness of your enemy a strength.'”

“there are times when you need so much precision that like if you're gonna lose somebody in whatever a war for talent because they got their feelings hurt well that's just gonna be how it's got to be because you need to teach that sunsoo object lesson like somebody's getting their head chopped off”

“yeah yeah [ __ ] you know those you know those people who like read The Art of War and imply it to their life trying to make it as like a personal trainer”

“ever heard of Sons ooh sons ooh art of war oh yeah let your plans be darkest night”

“the great thing is that Sun Tzu uh I don't know but Sam Tripoli is the one who says you just gotta wait at the mouth of the river and let all the bodies Flow by”

“in The Art of War they say give your opponent a golden bridge on which they can can Retreat”

“Right now I'm writing a song on the art of war because I've got a song that just sounds like a be really great, cuz I've read The Art of War so many times, to, uh, maybe maybe put that book as a muse to help me write a story about something related with the samurai culture or, the way”

“but it's a new translation of The Art of War by sunzo”

“After studying this book and unrestricted warfare, the original Chinese manuscript is kind of, even though it's recent, it's only a couple decades old. It's kind of up there with Sun Tzu's Art of War in terms of teaching people how to wage war in the modern era.”

“the war of art not to be confused with the Art of War”

“i remember i read the art of war”

“You ever read the Art of War? Mh.”

“Apart from Machiavelli, we've also referenced Sun Tzu, the renowned author of 'The Art of War' from China, who discussed the importance of building alliances.”

“Couldn't you train an AI on like just Sun Tzu's The Art of War or like on just specific pieces of very agreed upon smart writing?”

“and it's this book called on war by von klausewitz a german general it's the single most influential book on war written since sun tzu's art of war”

“The Art of War is just filled with gems there was another sunzu quote that I wanted to include but we just decided that uh we had to limit it to just one”

“reassessing of these ideas or axioms that have come down through things like the book of five rings or the art of war or you know like von klosterwicz even anything like that”

“unless you're attacking what is the art of war like every we all like everyone's like oh yeah the art of war oh yes he says”

“And when you surprise them, like in the art of war, they don't know what to do. And it makes them double down their focus on you.”

“A useful concept comes from the Samuel Griffith' translation of Sun Tzu, which talks about death ground. What's death ground? It's when your enemy puts you on death ground, which means they're going to kill you”

“i just think that there's like some like i've read enough like finance books that there's all these crazy things like the poison pill which frankly i don't even understand a lot of this but there's all these like weird like you know art of war type of things that you can do”

“and so I'm reminded of the great prophet Sun Sue and his art of war when your opponent is making a fool out of themselves let them yeah it's so well said you know Dano this Marilyn man thing”

“A lot of people fashion themselves warriors of one sense or another, and they read Sun Tzu Art of War and they think of their business as very high stakes, but ultimately in the field, I mean, you guys are dealing with life and death decisions.”

“and it's certainly I mean it's perfectly in keeping with sunzo at the very least it would be far cheaper easier safer from their perspective to um persuade us to harm ourselves than to go to war with us”

“this is like the basic sunzu Art of War”

“And you hear people talk about Boyd and you're like, God, why are people talking about this? But it's sort of recognized, at least in some circles, is the most substantial contribution to military strategy since the art of war by Sun Tzu 2,500 years ago.”

“In the art of war, Sun Tzu says, if you prepare for battle and you build a big army, and you go up against another army and you win, you have not won. You've done in modern terms, they call it attrition warfare, which was the dominant strategy for a long time.”

“Number 213, Sun Tzu wrote 'The Art of War.' Yes, which has inspired many, many, many people, reality stars even. By any means necessary, by any means necessary.”

“you all need to read machiavelli's art of war very info dense two-part conversation that discusses a great many structures and behaviors can work as a short play it'll blow ian's mind mock you”

“I didn't know machiavelli did an art of war I saw you have art of war on your desk downstairs”

“akapot says with china it's all sun tzu the art of war know your enemy the ccp knows this well and their tentacles are in everything in our country russia too but not as prolific we have adversaries that hate us collectivists i kind of want to push back on that a little bit i don't think people always compare”

“what about art of war oh yeah tribal warfare what about it i mean there's a lot of stuff about violence and war it comes from what's the best way to win the war according to sun tzu the best you went before you started win the war before going to war”

“you know about 2 000 years ago there was this chinese general who wrote a book called the article and one of the things some somebody wrote a business book late years later called the art of the deal”

“I said look you know about 2 000 years ago there was this chinese general who wrote a book called the article and one of the things some somebody wrote a business book late years later called the art of the deal which is yeah and and but in in the art of war sun tzu says when you're an”