If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
ROBERT GREENEHasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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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 problem with human beings is that they can’t sit alone in a room for more than an hour.
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Nothing is given to you.
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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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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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I 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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