Win through your actions, never through argument.
ROBERT GREENEWin through your actions, never through argument.
ROBERT GREENEUnderstand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
ROBERT GREENEEverybody 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.
ROBERT GREENEIt 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 GREENEActually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
ROBERT GREENERemember: 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.
ROBERT GREENEYou’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.
ROBERT GREENEBe brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
ROBERT GREENEPeople go into things for the wrong reasons.
ROBERT GREENEIf 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.
ROBERT GREENEThere’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
ROBERT GREENEThe human tongue is a beast that few can master.
ROBERT GREENEDo 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 GREENEHasty climbers have sudden falls.
ROBERT GREENEIt 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.
ROBERT GREENEBe as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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