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.
ROBERT GREENEYou cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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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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We 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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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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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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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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