In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
In plain words
When everything is a mess, there is usually a chance hiding in it.
Where these words come from
- 36% sureLots of sources credit Sun Tzu with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- widely attributed; exact wording absent from the complete Art of War (Giles 1910 translation, full text read). Closest genuine passage is VIII.9 — 'in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage' — which this line paraphrases. Paraphrase class.
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