Law 1: Never outshine the master.Law 2: Don't overtrust your friends. Use your enemies.Law 3: Mask your intentions.Law 4: Always say less than necessary.Law 5: Protect your reputation at all costs, since your reputation shapes others’ expectations.Law 6: Be conspicuous & stand out. Bad publicity is still publicity.Law 7: Get others to do the work and take the credit. Save your time/energy while building your base.Law 8: Make people come to you, so you hold all the cards.Law 9: Win through actions, not argument. Prove your point without offending people.Law 10: Don’t get infected by misery.

The 48 Laws Of Power

Law 11: Make yourself indispensable, so it’s harder to cut you off.Law 12: Disarm people with strategic honesty & generosity–use these as tools to win people over.Law 13: Get help by appealing to self-interest, not goodness.Law 14: Be a spy. Gather intelligence to know your opponents.Law 15: Crush your enemy totally. Don’t give them a chance to recover.Law 16: Raise your value through absence and scarcity. Don’t let people take you for granted.Law 17: Keep others in suspense by being unpredictable. Keep them second-guessing.

Law 18: Don’t isolate yourself behind a fortress. Have eyes and ears everywhere.Law 19: Know your opponents and who you’re dealing with.Law 20: Stay neutral as long as possible to maintain your independence (vs committing to 1 side).Law 21: Make your victims feel smarter than you, so they drop their guard.Law 22: Use surrender as a tool. Bide your time for retaliation.Law 23: Concentrate your forces. Don’t spread them too thin.Law 24: Be a masterful courtier to balance the various players and power brokers.Law 25: Create your own identity and use it like a costume.

“Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.”

Law 26: Don’t dirty your hands. Get others to do your dirty work.Law 27: Create a cult-like following. Play on what people want to see/hear.Law 28: Act boldly, so you seem confident.Law 29: Plan till the end, so you won’t be caught by surprise.Law 30: Make your achievements seem effortless. Don’t show your real success secrets.Law 31: Control the options but let people think they’re in control.Law 32: Play to people’s fantasies so they keep following you.Law 33: Find your opponent’s fatal weakness to break their defences.

Law 34: Act in the way you want to be treated. Be regal and authoritative.Law 35: Master the art of timing. Strike only at the right hour.Law 36: Feign disinterest and ignore what you can’t have.Law 37: Dazzle people with spectacles so they don’t see what you’re really doing.Law 38: Hide your unorthodox thinking. Pretend to blend in.Law 39: Stir up waters to catch the fish. Make your opponents reckless while you stay calm.Law 40: Beware the free lunch. There’re always strings attached.Law 41: Chart a new course rather than try a big man’s shoes.

Law 42: Strike the shepherd to scatter the sheep. Isolate the leader.Law 43: Win both hearts and minds. Appeal to both feelings and logic.Law 44: Unbalance and confuse with the mirror effect (mask reality with illusion).Law 45: Introduce change gradually. Drastic reforms bring resistance.Law 46: Don’t seem too perfect or you’ll invite jealousy.Law 47: Don’t push too far in victory. Know when to stop.Law 48: Be formless and unpredictable.

“Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by other's experience.”

Strike the shepherd and the sheeps will scatter :)

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

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