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Robert Greene & Joost Elffers The 48 Laws of Power (1998) Viking Penguin, ISBN: 0670881465, 452 pages
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
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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 |
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Warning: The authors caution Reversals of these Laws in certain cases. Of the 48 Laws, only seven are irreversible— Law #5, 10, 19, 25, 35, 37, 43. These are marked with *. Advice from WisdomPortal.com: Ponder on spiritual laws (Golden Rule, Karma, Prayer) that supercede all of the above.
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