Sun Tzu Net Worth

About Sun Tzu

Chinese general, military tactician, author, and philosopher Sun Tzu (孫子) is thought to have had a net worth of $5 million. There isn’t really much known about Tzu; several sources contradict as to where he was born, and some historians even ponder whether he ever lived. Tradition holds that Tzu was born in the late Spring and Autumn Period of the Zhou Dynasty in 544 BC.

Chinese general, military strategist, writer and philosopher Sun Tzu had an inflation-adjusted net worth of $5 million dollars at the time of his death, in 496 BC. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War.

He is reported to have started off as a commander for the Kingdom of Wu around 512 BC. Due to his enormous accomplishment, he wrote The Art of War. During the Warfare States Period, which lasted from 475 to 221 BC, the book of warring strategy was well received by the strategists in the other seven Chinese states.

But as the years have passed, historians have started to doubt and reevaluate who and when wrote The Art of War. The book’s strategies and detailed weapons, such crossbows, imply that it could not have been written before 500 BC. However, the absence of any reference to a cavalry—which only arose in Chinese military strategy around 320 BC—indicates that it was composed between 400 and 320 BC.

Whoever Sun Tzu was, the book of strategy that bears his name has endured for ages. It was read by Union generals at West Point during the American Civil War, Mao Zedong, and Ho Chi Minh, and cadets still do today.

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