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.
ROBERT GREENEWin through your actions, never through argument.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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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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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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 world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
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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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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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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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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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