782 Quotes by Robert Greene

If you have millions and millions of dollars, you’re living in a totally different world. You don’t feel it anymore and you’ve got to feel it.

We are all self-absorbed, locked in our own worlds. It is a therapeutic and liberating experience to be drawn outside ourselves and into the world of another.

What withdraws, what becomes scarce, suddenly seems to deserve our respect and honor. What stays too long, inundating us with its presence, makes us disdain it.

This mental habit offers excellent ground for deception, using a strategy that Machiavelli calls “acclimatization” – deliberately creating some pattern to make your enemies believe that your next action will follow true to form. Having lulled them into complacency, you now have room to work against their expectations, break the pattern, and take them by surprise.

Once envy eats away at someone, everything you do only makes it grow, and day by day it festers inside him. Eventually he will attack.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. – NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.

Everyone understands the need for change in the abstract, but on the day-to-day level people are creatures of habit. Too much innovation is traumatic, and will lead to revolt.

Power goes to those who end the revolution. Not the one who starts it.

When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.