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.
ROBERT GREENEBoldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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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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Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.
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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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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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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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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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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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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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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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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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Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.
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