The problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
ROBERT GREENENever 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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I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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Nothing is given to you.
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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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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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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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The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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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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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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