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.
ROBERT GREENEI just know who I am and what’s comfortable for me and I don’t personally do things in life because others do it or because that’s what society tells me I should do.
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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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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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If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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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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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
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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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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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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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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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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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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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