A single arrow breaks easily, but three arrows bundled together cannot be broken.

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

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

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

Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as the mountain.

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

攻撃を一点に集約せよ、無駄な事はするな。

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

When the cunning rabbit is dead, the hunting dog is boiled.

-- The greatest military mind of early imperial China, whose campaigns established the Han dynasty (c. 231-196 BCE). Han Xin's tactical innovations — including the legendary 'battle with backs to the river' — demonstrated that battlefield psychology and terrain exploitation could overcome any numerical disadvantage. His reward

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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