782 Quotes by Robert Greene

You must be particularly careful to never make people feel stupid in your presence.

If you have the kind of intelligence and instinct that will point you in the right direction, playing the rebel will not be dangerous. But if you are mediocre... you are better off learning from your predecessor’s knowledge and experience, which are based on something real.

As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only.

When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it’s innate, you can’t learn it, I just want to hit them in the head.

You will know when your apprenticeship is over by the feeling that you have nothing left to learn in this environment.

To some people the notion of consciously playing power games – no matter how indirect – seems evil, asocial, a relic of the past. They believe they can opt out of the game by behaving in ways that have nothing to do with power. You must beware of such people, for while they express such opinions outwardly, they are often among the most adept players at power.

If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.

Whenever you can, bury the hatchet with an enemy, and make a point of putting him in your service.

When people choose between talk about the past and talk about the future, a pragmatic person will always opt for the future and forget the past.