Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
ROBERT GREENEIt 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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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they 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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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Nothing is given to you.
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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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If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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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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You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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