Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
ROBERT GREENEBecome who you are by learning who you are.
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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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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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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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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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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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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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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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