Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
ROBERT GREENENever waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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 problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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