The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
ROBERT GREENEWe must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
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All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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Nothing is given to you.
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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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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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