Your goal in life must be to always move higher and higher up the food chain, where you alone control the direction of your enterprise and depend on no one.
Now is the time to stop drifting and wake up – to assess yourself, the people around you, and the direction in which you are headed in as cold and brutal a light as possible. Without fear.
The empire fell well before the invasion of the barbarians. It collapsed from the collective softness of its citizens’ minds and the turning of their back on reality.
Fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.
