Napoleon advised: Place your iron hand inside
a. velvet glove.
***
Treating everyone equally means ignoring
their differences, elevating the less skillful and suppressing those who
excel
***
what separates humans from animals is our ability to lie and deceive.
Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent
weapon in the game of power
***
patience is the
supreme virtue of the gods, who have nothing but time. Everything good
will happen——-the grass will grow again, if you give it time and see several
steps into the future. Impatience, on the other hand, only makes you look
weak.
***
People are of infinite complexity and you can spend a lifetime watching
them without ever fully understanding them. So it is all the more important,
then, to begin your education now. In doing so you must also keep
one principle in mind: Never discriminate as to whom you study and
whom you trust. Never trust anyone completely and study everyone, including
friends and loved ones.
***
Make your
masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will
attain the heights ofpowen
***
The world is a harsh place, and your friends soften the harshness. The problem is that you often do not know your friends as well as you
imagine. Friends often agree on things in order to avoid an argument.
They cover up their unpleasant qualifies so as to not offend each other.
They laugh extra hard at each other’s jokes. Since honesty rarely strengthens
friendship, you may never know how a friend tmly feels. Friends will
say that they love your poetry, adore your music, envy your taste in
clothes———maybe they mean it, often they do not.
***
The jaws of Ingrattitude.
Knowing what would happen
if you put a finger in
the mouth of a lion,
you would stay
clear of it.
VVith friends
you will have
no such caution, and
if you hire them, they will
eat you alive with ingratitude.
***
Know how to use
enemies for your own
profit. You must learn to grab at
sword not by its blade, which would
cut you, but by the handle, which allows
you to defend yourself.
***
Keep people off balancc and in the dark by never revealing
the purpose behind your actions
***
A Sheep’s Skin.
A sheep never marauds,
a sheep never deceives,
a sheep is magnificently
dumb and docile.
**
To maintain your independence you must always be
needed and wanted. Never teach them enough so that they can do without yau.
***
The first lesson which experience
should teach you is to keep hope
alive but never satisfied.
***
Machiavelli said, it is better to be feared than loved. Fear you can control;
love, never. Better to have others depend on
you out of fear of the consequences of losing you than out of love of your
company.
The weakness of making others depend on you is that you are in some
measure dependent on them. But trying to move beyond that point means
getting rid of those above you—it means standing alone, depending on no
one.
***
Some people will see an appeal to their selfiinterest as ugly and ignoble.
They actually prefer to be able to exercise charity, mercy, and justice,
which are their ways of feeling superior to you: When you beg them for
help, you emphasize their power and position. They are strong enough to
need nothing from you except the chance to feel superior
***
Information is critical to power, but just as you spy on other people, you
must be prepared for them to spy on you.While spying gives you a third eye, disinformation puts out one of your enemy’s eyes
***
Love never dies of starvation “but
often of indigestion.”
***
You can never be sure who you are dealing with. A man who is of little importance
and means today can be a person of power tomorrow. We forget
a lot in our lives, but we rarely forget an insult
***
Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is
seen.
***
Teach no one your tricks or they wiii be used
against you.
***
Sometimes not acting in the face of danger is your best move
The idea behind the assumption of regal confidence is to set yourself apart
from other people, but if you take this too far it will be your undoing.
Never make the mistake of thinking that you elevate yourself by humiliating
people.
***
Patience is worthless unless combined with a willingness to fall ruthlessly on your opponent
at the right moment.
**
The more attention you pay an enemy,
the stronger you make him.It is
sometimes best to leave things alone.
***
The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
***
people will respond more to the color than to
the word.
***
Stay with the herd—
there is safety in numbers, Keep
your differences in your
thoughts and not in your fleece.
**8
human nature will never change: People will congregate around a single
strong personality like planets orbiting a sun.
***
A key element in games of strategy is isolating the enemy’s power. In
chess you try to corner the king
It is often better to isolate your enemies than to destroy them——you seem less brutal.
***
“It is better to win hearts," said the wise man, “than cities; better
to battle with hearts than with weapons.
***
Never clumsily assume that the tactic that
worked on one person will necessarily work on another. To find the key
that will motivate them, first get them to open up. The more they talk, the
more they reveal about their likes and dislikes--the handles and levers to
move them with.
***
People build
walls to keep you
out; never force
your way in —- you
will find only more
walls within walls.
There are doors in
these walls, doors to
the heart and mind, and
they have tiny keys
holes.
***
The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid
and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting
order. Everything changes.
a. velvet glove.
***
Treating everyone equally means ignoring
their differences, elevating the less skillful and suppressing those who
excel
***
what separates humans from animals is our ability to lie and deceive.
Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent
weapon in the game of power
***
patience is the
supreme virtue of the gods, who have nothing but time. Everything good
will happen——-the grass will grow again, if you give it time and see several
steps into the future. Impatience, on the other hand, only makes you look
weak.
***
People are of infinite complexity and you can spend a lifetime watching
them without ever fully understanding them. So it is all the more important,
then, to begin your education now. In doing so you must also keep
one principle in mind: Never discriminate as to whom you study and
whom you trust. Never trust anyone completely and study everyone, including
friends and loved ones.
***
Make your
masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will
attain the heights ofpowen
***
The world is a harsh place, and your friends soften the harshness. The problem is that you often do not know your friends as well as you
imagine. Friends often agree on things in order to avoid an argument.
They cover up their unpleasant qualifies so as to not offend each other.
They laugh extra hard at each other’s jokes. Since honesty rarely strengthens
friendship, you may never know how a friend tmly feels. Friends will
say that they love your poetry, adore your music, envy your taste in
clothes———maybe they mean it, often they do not.
***
The jaws of Ingrattitude.
Knowing what would happen
if you put a finger in
the mouth of a lion,
you would stay
clear of it.
VVith friends
you will have
no such caution, and
if you hire them, they will
eat you alive with ingratitude.
***
Know how to use
enemies for your own
profit. You must learn to grab at
sword not by its blade, which would
cut you, but by the handle, which allows
you to defend yourself.
***
Keep people off balancc and in the dark by never revealing
the purpose behind your actions
***
A Sheep’s Skin.
A sheep never marauds,
a sheep never deceives,
a sheep is magnificently
dumb and docile.
**
To maintain your independence you must always be
needed and wanted. Never teach them enough so that they can do without yau.
***
The first lesson which experience
should teach you is to keep hope
alive but never satisfied.
***
Machiavelli said, it is better to be feared than loved. Fear you can control;
love, never. Better to have others depend on
you out of fear of the consequences of losing you than out of love of your
company.
The weakness of making others depend on you is that you are in some
measure dependent on them. But trying to move beyond that point means
getting rid of those above you—it means standing alone, depending on no
one.
***
Some people will see an appeal to their selfiinterest as ugly and ignoble.
They actually prefer to be able to exercise charity, mercy, and justice,
which are their ways of feeling superior to you: When you beg them for
help, you emphasize their power and position. They are strong enough to
need nothing from you except the chance to feel superior
***
Information is critical to power, but just as you spy on other people, you
must be prepared for them to spy on you.While spying gives you a third eye, disinformation puts out one of your enemy’s eyes
***
Love never dies of starvation “but
often of indigestion.”
***
You can never be sure who you are dealing with. A man who is of little importance
and means today can be a person of power tomorrow. We forget
a lot in our lives, but we rarely forget an insult
***
Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is
seen.
***
Teach no one your tricks or they wiii be used
against you.
***
Sometimes not acting in the face of danger is your best move
The idea behind the assumption of regal confidence is to set yourself apart
from other people, but if you take this too far it will be your undoing.
Never make the mistake of thinking that you elevate yourself by humiliating
people.
***
Patience is worthless unless combined with a willingness to fall ruthlessly on your opponent
at the right moment.
**
The more attention you pay an enemy,
the stronger you make him.It is
sometimes best to leave things alone.
***
The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
***
people will respond more to the color than to
the word.
***
Stay with the herd—
there is safety in numbers, Keep
your differences in your
thoughts and not in your fleece.
**8
human nature will never change: People will congregate around a single
strong personality like planets orbiting a sun.
***
A key element in games of strategy is isolating the enemy’s power. In
chess you try to corner the king
It is often better to isolate your enemies than to destroy them——you seem less brutal.
***
“It is better to win hearts," said the wise man, “than cities; better
to battle with hearts than with weapons.
***
Never clumsily assume that the tactic that
worked on one person will necessarily work on another. To find the key
that will motivate them, first get them to open up. The more they talk, the
more they reveal about their likes and dislikes--the handles and levers to
move them with.
***
People build
walls to keep you
out; never force
your way in —- you
will find only more
walls within walls.
There are doors in
these walls, doors to
the heart and mind, and
they have tiny keys
holes.
***
The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid
and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting
order. Everything changes.
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