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.
ROBERT GREENEYour unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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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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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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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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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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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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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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We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
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Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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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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Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
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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 moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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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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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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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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