Art of War Audiobook

" This was an interesting book - much shorter than I would have thought and much more of a narrative than I would have thought. I'm sure I will come back to this book a few more times over the next year or two. "

" Good, you can apply it to anything you want to do. "

" even it is small book,it needs understanding and really focusing ! a book to reread of course! "

" Superb...theories u can apply in any management field... "

" Interesting, remember the Monty Python sketch about pirate companies attacking each other...this is board room reading apparently. "

" I'm not sure why I expected complexity from such an old text, but I found this to be easy to read and understand. Sun Tzu's statements at first seem like common knowledge, but all common knowledge comes from somewhere, and our common understanding of the fundamentals of battle come from this book. "

" A fascinating self-contained philosophical argument. Just be sure to read a version with alternative translations and plenty of commentary. Otherwise, you will be puzzling over what are most likely linguistic errors. "

" Not as groundbreakingly insightful as I'd been led to believe it would be, but still interesting. "

" When you are small in number, you must appear to be many. When you are near, you must appear to be far. When you are ready, you must appear to be unready. Good advice for every situation. "

" Wether for war or corporate strategy, everyone should read this for insights to living life better. "

" I've read 2 translations and like Samuel B. Griffith's best. He does a good job of using footnotes to point out where he's going against other translators and give a wider view. "

" Interesting read. It was a little bit of a challenge because of all the commentary, but I enjoyed it. "

" Foundational book for military history. "

" Great philosophy that still applies to everyday situations! "

" I should have read this book 30 years ago! Amazing - have read it 3 times this year. "

" One of the dozen books every human being should read IMHO. "

" A should-read book on office politics which will happen to you and around you whether you participate in politics or not. "

" Read it backwards. Then see what happens "

" Disappointing. I was expecting something deeper and more unknown. The book is very basic and very simple. I am sure at the time this work was written the substance was very wise and fresh but know it is just dull. "

" I did not get this book. I'll be honested, i read the executive summary and i was told to read it to draw the parallels in modern business, but i really struggled to put two and two together. I can see how it'd be a great book from a military or strategic perspective, however. "

" If they read "Art of War", you know their strategy. "

" This is a book tha needs to be read and re-read. There is so much information in it the brain cannot take it all in. "

" Makes you want to put on a suit and go take over something. "

" Hard to believe that this was concieved so many years ago yet it still holds so much insight into all types of conflict, even today. Amazing....... "

" The commentary sometimes gets in the way of the individual aphorisms, but sometimes that's critical so problems in translating can be understood by the reader. "

" This man taught me to fight when there's a clear objective. He also takes a lot of the chance out of the battle. "

" A deceptively simple and easy to read treatise actually holds quite a lot of interesting strategies not just to war but to life itself. "

" Poetic and always confident, the Art of War is still capable of inspiring the modern man with its occasionally dated descriptions. This edition also includes a similar piece by Wu Tzu - also worth reading. "

" A must read for everyone in the military who happens to have common sense. If more military and political leadership would read this we would have more successful battles, unfortunately they do not. "

" Short, but with some very interesting thoughts when the wisdom is applied widely. Or conversely, an interesting way to think about war in the modern day - how much still applies, and the few things that are outdated. "