What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
ROBERT GREENERemember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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I just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
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All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
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Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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Nothing is given to you.
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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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