“If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.” IfsMindPersonsPlayCertainGamesPlansGoes OnConsequenceDefenseDynamicsGame Plan Author:Robert Greene
“If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.” PeopleIfsTryingWellsMayPersonsHardFactsMightJobsProcessOur LivesPositionLike YouEnvyTendenciesInsecurityImpressSubordinates Author:Robert Greene
“When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.” ThinkingGivingPersonsJobsSpaceInfluenceProductsPersuasionWithout You Author:Robert Greene
“If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.” PeopleIfsPersonsLosesPowerfulJudgingTypeWho You AreDetermineCarefulAppearanceHolesShyAggressivePigeonsPowerful Person Author:Robert Greene
“I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.” KnowsWantPersonsPowerfulDestroyingWowVery PowerfulParanoia Author:Robert Greene
“When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingKindPersonsI CanDoneMomentsLosesAttentionHappenedDangerousBalanceDrunkWowSuccess In LifeDetachmentGreat Person Author:Robert Greene
“50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't know what to expect. It ended up we got along really well. That's why we decided to do a book together, The 50th Law of Power.” KnowsFirstsWellsLittlesPersonsBookTogetherLawMetsFirst TimeDecidedIntimidatedGreat Person Author:Robert Greene
“The big difference is, as a man, I can go to a bar at two in the morning and people will be like "He's just a fun guy! That's cool that he can balance all these things." But if you see a person that you know who has two young kids and is a mom, there's no way those perceptions are the same. It's like "Oh, there must be a problem." That's usually what women face.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWayPersonsI CanTwoProblemBigsKidsFacesYoungGuyFunDifferencesMorningMomBalancePerceptionBars Author:Robert Greene
“I really do think you shoot for that beautiful experience of showing your movie in a crowd or room full of people, or even just one person who happens to go to a matinee screening.” PeopleThinkingPersonsHappensBeautifulRoomsCrowdsJust OneScreeningBeautiful Experiences Author:Robert Greene
“One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever magazine article. That is also the great power of the internet, where people share their opinions without the annoying screen of the media, and so much of the presence of my books has come from the Internet. It's a new era, a new form of war, and I embrace it.” PeopleKindPersonsBookWarHelpingFormOpinionShareMediaInternetEmbraceScreensCleverSuperiorsMagazinesErasArticlesAnnoyingGreat PowerAdvertisementsNew Era Author:Robert Greene
“I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.” ThinkingKindPersonsActionCausesSportsInterestDramaStrategyCoachesInstanceStrategicStrategic ThinkingThinking Person Author:Robert Greene
“I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.” ThinkingWantKindPersonsEnoughLiteratureLanguageBackgroundsAnalyzing Author:Robert Greene
“When it comes to fertility, there are so may things that have to go right. In any one individual, there might be one major problem and two minor ones or no major ones and seven minor ones. Throw in another person's physiology, and it's complicated. I try to give people the knowledge that they can make as many changes as they want.” PeopleWantGivingTryingMayPersonsTwoProblemMightIndividualMajorsSevenComplicatedMinorsFertilityPhysiologyMajor Problems Author:Robert Greene
“The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because I am a person who went to 15 different elementary and middle schools. I moved all the time, often having to run out in the middle of the night because my mom couldn't pay the bills. There were schools where I'd be the poor loser kid. There were schools where I'd suddenly be the smart kid or the cool kid, although that was very seldom.” ThinkingPersonsIdeasDifferentRunningKidsSchoolNightSocialPoorPayMiddleIdentityMomSmartPerformancesBillsMovedMy MomPerformingObsessedLoserMiddle Of The NightMiddle SchoolCool KidSmart Kid Author:Robert Greene
“Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.” KindPersonsFearSidesPowerInstill Author:Robert Greene
“Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsShouldMayPersonsImportantSeemsTurnsGivenWorryViolenceFailingPrideHonorOffersSkinsAssumingExtremesRidiculousOffenseRequestInsultingSlownessNever AssumeThickness Book:The 48 Laws Of Power Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.” PersonsCareRomanceChanceEffortLeavingDisasterRecipesBehalfChances AreSeducing Book:The Art Of Seduction Source: The Art Of Seduction
