If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
ROBERT GREENESome people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
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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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When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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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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What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
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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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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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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 really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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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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