Law of power life
Hide your intentions not by closing up with the risk of appearing secretive and making people suspicious, but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals just not your real ones. You will kill three birds with one stone; you appear friendly, open and trusting. You conceal your intentions and you send your rivals on time consuming wild - goose chases.
Win the victory before you declare the war. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish because such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby put himself at the mercy of the listener. The less you say the more profound and mysterious you appear to people. The less you say,the less risk you run of saying something foolish. I learn that you actually have more power when you shut up. The less you talk about your work the more people talked about it and the more they talk the more valuable your work become.
Pick up a bee from kindness and learn the limitations of kindness. Men are ready to repay an injury than a benefit,because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. The wise man profit more from his enemies,than a fool from his friends. With friends you will have no such cautions and if you hire them,they will eat you alive with in gratitude.
Your success seems destined by your past triumphs. When you have a history of deceit behind you, no amount of honesty,generosity or kindness will fool people. In fact it will only call attention to itself.
In the beginning of your rise to the top,you must attract attention at all cost,but as you rise higher you must constantly adapt. It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. Your reputation inevitably precedes you,and if it inspires respect, a lot of your work is done for you before you arrive on the scene or utter a single word. A name without fame is like fire without flame. There is nothing like attracting notice at any cost. The worst fate in the world for a man who yearns fame, glory and of course power is to be ignored.
Pounce on the work others have done, and find a way to make it your own. Learn to get others to do the work for you while you take the credit and you appear to be of godlike strength and power. Fools say that they learn by experience, I prefer to profit by others' experience. By the sweet of other's brow, you win the reputation of being an oracle.
Master your emotions ams never to be influenced by anger. Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky. In the game of life the people you associate with are critical. The risk of associating with infectors is that you will waste valuable time and energy trying to free yourself. Emotional states are as infectious as diseases and you can die from someone else's misery. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.
It is better to be feared than loved. Better to have others depend on you out of fear of the consequences of losing you than out of love of your company. The essence of deception is distraction. Selective kindness should be part of your arsenal of deception. Over deceptiveness will sometimes cover your tracks,even making you admired for the honesty of your dishonesty.
We are all creatures of habit, and our first impressions last a long time. Honesty is one of the best way to disarm the wary, but it is not the only one. When you aim right for the heart ,it corrodes the will to fight back. By playing on people's emotions, calculated acts of kindness can turn a Capone into a gullible child.
When asking for help, appeal to people's self interest,never to their mercy or gratitude. Self-interest is the lever that will move people,once you make them see how you can in some way meet their need or advance their cause, their resistance to your requests for help will magically fall away.
A man said to Dervish : 'why do I not see you more often?', the Dervish replied 'Because the word 'why have you not been to see me ?' Are sweeter to my ear than the word 'why have you come again?' Make yourself too available and the aura of power you have created around yourself will wear away but make yourself less accessible and you increase the value of your presence. Make use of your absence to increase respect and honor.
At each step on the way to acquiring power, train yourself to think your way inside other person's mind,to see their needs and interests to get rid of the screen to your own feelings that obscure the truth. Crush your enemies as totally as they would crush you. Love never dies of starvation but often of indigestion. Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy.
Be deliberately unpredictable. Cultivate an air of unpredictability. Behavior that seems to have no consistency or purpose will keep them off - balance.
Never enclose yourself so far from the streets that you cannot hear what is happening around you,including the plots against you. Power is a human creation and it is inevitably increased by contact with other people (Wolves in Lamb's clothing ).
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