When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
ROBERT GREENELife 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.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
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I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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Win through your actions, never through argument.
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No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.
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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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Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
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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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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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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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