Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I am impressed when I go on the internet and see a lot of young people who've been influenced by the books,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The problem is the book business is changing so we're in a difficult moment now and if the business model is changing,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When I was researching my book 'The 33 Strategies of War', I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share
I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time. — Robert Greene Copy Share
You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset. — Robert Greene Copy Share
Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things,… — Robert Greene Copy Share
Everybody knows what they were kind of drawn towards or what they're gifted at and it's more of courage and looking at yourself and… — Robert Greene Copy Share
Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they… — Robert Greene Copy Share
I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could… — Robert Greene Copy Share
It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome… — Robert Greene Copy Share
If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or… — Robert Greene Copy Share
Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your… — Robert Greene Copy Share
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that… — Robert Greene Copy Share
What I like about the internet, what I see there is that its much more democratic. I have much more control, and if what… — Robert Greene Copy Share
“It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grasslands of East Africa some six… — Robert Greene Copy Share
“Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly—not through words and received ideas. It was flexible… — Robert Greene Copy Share
