What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
ROBERT GREENEPeople go into things for the wrong reasons.
More Robert Greene Quotes
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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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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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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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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
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For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.”
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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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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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Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Become who you are by learning who you are.
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