Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through political connections or easy formulas,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“In our culture we tend to equate thinking and intellectual powers with success and achievement. In many ways, however, it is an… — 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
