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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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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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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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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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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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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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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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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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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
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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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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
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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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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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Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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