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always planning several moves ahead.
Treating everyone equally means ignoring their differences, elevating the less skillful and suppressing those who excel.
is a form of persuasion, even a subtle form of coercion.
bungler.
you must be able to look in both directions at once,
For the future, the motto is, “No days unalert.” Nothing should catch you by surprise because you are constantly imagining problems before they arise.
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You begin by examining the mistakes you have made in the past,
you can learn to break the patterns of the past—an immensely valuable skill.
All human interaction requires deception on many levels, and in some ways what separates humans from animals is our ability to lie and deceive.
If deception is the most potent weapon in your arsenal, then patience in all things is your crucial shield.
Impatience, on the other hand, only makes you look weak. It is a principal impediment to power.
the end, life is short, opportunities are few, and you have only so much energy to draw on.
An understanding of people’s hidden motives is the single greatest piece of knowledge you can have in acquiring power. It opens up endless possibilities of deception, seduction,
and manipulation.
Never trust anyone completely and study everyone, including friends and loved ones.
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior.
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In your desire to please and impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite—inspire fear and insecurity.
Rather than flattering Louis XIV, Fouquet’s elaborate party offended the king’s vanity.
rid himself of a man who had inadvertently made him feel insecure.
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.
Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you
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have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
To have a good enemy, choose a friend: He knows where to strike.
They forget the favors they have received and imagine they have earned their success by their own merits.
Instead of relying on friends, Sung used his enemies, one after the other, transforming them into far more reliable subjects.
and in the end, skill and competence are far more important than friendly feelings.
The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests
in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
a person who has something to prove will move mountains for you.
Without enemies around us, we grow lazy. An enemy at our heels sharpens our wits, keeping us focused and alert. It is sometimes better, then, to use enemies as enemies rather than transforming them into friends or allies.
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