If you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
ROBERT GREENEIf you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
ROBERT GREENEKeep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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 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 GREENEOnly create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.
ROBERT GREENEYou cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.
ROBERT GREENENever waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
ROBERT GREENEBe as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.
ROBERT GREENELife 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.
ROBERT GREENETrue genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
ROBERT GREENEThe 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.
ROBERT GREENEYour unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it’s telling you something isn’t right.
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 GREENEMastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
ROBERT GREENEMany a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
ROBERT GREENEMastery 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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