48 LAWS ON HOW TO BECOME A PERSON OF POWER

Law 1: Never outshine the master

Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies

Law 3: Conceal your intentions

Law 4: Always say less than necessary

Law 5: So much depends on reputation guard it with your life

Law 6: Court attention at all costs

Law 7: Get Others to do the work for you, but always take the credit

Law 8: Make other people come to you use bait if necessary

Law 9: Win through your actions, never through argument

Law 10: Infection: Avoid the unhappy and unlucky

Law 11: Learn to keep people dependent on you

Law 12: Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim

Law 13: When asking for help, appeal to people’s self –interest, never to their mercy or gratitude

Law 14: Pose as a friend, work as a spy

Law 15: Crush your enemy totally

Law 16: Use absence to increase respect and honor

Law 17: Keep others in suspense

Law 18: Do not build fortresses to protect yourself – Isolation is dangerous

Law 19: Know who you’re dealing with – do not offend the wrong person

Law 20: Do not commit to anyone

Law 21: Play a sucker to catch a sucker – seem dumber than your mark

Law 22: Use the surrender tactic

Law 23: Concentrate your forces

Law 24: Play the perfect courtier

Law 25: Re-create yourself

Law 26: Keep Your hands clean

Law 27: Play on people’s need to believe to create a cult like following

Law 28: Enter action with boldness

Law 29: Plan all the way to the end

Law 30: Make your accomplishments seem effortless

Law 31: Control the options

Law 32: Play to people’s fantasies

Law 33: Discover each man’s thumbscrew

Law 34: Be royal in your own fashion – act like a king to be treated like one

Law 35: Master the art of timing

Law 36: Disdain things you cannot have – Ignoring them is the best revenge

Law 37: Create compelling spectacles

Law 38: Think as you like but behave like others

Law 39: Stir up waters to catch fish

Law 40: Despise the free lunch

Law 41: Avid stepping into a great man’s shoes

Law 42: Strike the shepherd and sheep will scatter

Law 43: Work on the hearts and minds of others

Law 44: Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect

Law 45: Preach the need for change, But never reform too much at once

Law 46: Never appear too prefect

Law 47: Do not go past the mark you aimed for; In victory, learn when to stop

Law 48: Assume formlessness.

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