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48 laws of power
by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers
Law | Definition |
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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 Cost |
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 Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability |
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: Transform Weakness into Power |
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 Cultlike 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: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal |
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 | Avoid Stepping into a Great Man’s Shoes |
Law 42 | Strike the Shepherd and the 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 Perfect |
Law 47 | Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop |
Law 48 | Assume Formlessness |