Do not reveal your true motives and objectives to others, as it gives them an advantage over you.

Conceal Your Intentions:

Limit your words and be cautious with what you disclose, as it can be used against you.

Always Say Less than Necessary:

Never Put Too Much Trust in Friends: Be cautious of placing blind trust in friends, as they may betray you for their own benefit.

Never Put Too Much Trust in Friends

Create situations where others rely on you, ensuring your power remains intact.

Learn to Keep People Dependent on You: 

When facing opposition, eliminate any threat to your power and reputation completely.

Crush Your Enemy Totally:

Be strategic with your honesty and generosity, using them to gain influence over others.

Use Selective Honesty and Generosity: 

Cultivate a strong reputation as it can provide you with leverage and influence.

So Much Depends on Reputation:

Attract others to your sphere of influence, making them seek your approval and support.

Make Other People Come to You: 

Avoid drawing attention to your own abilities or overshadowing those in positions of power above you.

Never Outshine the Master

Delegate tasks and responsibilities to others, allowing you to focus on strategy and maintaining control.

Get Others to Do the Work for You: 

Seek attention and stand out from the crowd to gain power and recognition.

Court Attention at All Costs:

Frame your requests in a way that benefits the other person, appealing to their self-interest.

When Asking for Help, Appeal to Self-Interest: 

Surround yourself with positive and successful individuals, as their energy will uplift you.

Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky:

Disguise your true intentions by befriending others while secretly gathering information to gain an advantage.

Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy:

Instead of engaging in fruitless debates, let your actions speak for themselves.

Win through Actions, Never through Argument: 

"The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene is a book that explores the dynamics of power and how individuals can manipulate and wield it to their advantage. Here are the main points from the book:

The 48 Laws of Power

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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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Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature.

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