782 Quotes by Robert Greene

I got very good on the telephone tricks too. Like calling up a company and find out that the plant was going to building a new addition and getting hold of the engineering office and getting the secretary to give me the direct extension.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated.

Money must circulate to bring power.

Think of yourself as your own Zen Master. Such masters would beat their pupils and deliberately lead them to points of maximum doubt and inner tension, knowing such moments precede enlightenment.

Sometimes, however, it is better to take risks and play the most capricious, unpredictable move.

Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.

The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history-the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen.

If you lose contact with this inner calling, you can have some success in life, but eventually your lack of true desire catches up with you. Your work becomes mechanical. You come to live for leisure and immediate pleasures. In this way you become increasingly passive, and never move past the first phase. You may grow frustrated and depressed, never realizing that the source of it is your alienation from your own creative potential.

The environment we operate in may be different, but the brain is essentially the same, and its power to learn, adapt, and master time is universal.