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 GREENEBecome who you are by learning who you are.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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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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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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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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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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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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