Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
ROBERT GREENEYou must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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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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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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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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Nothing is given to 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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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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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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Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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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 moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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