Best Quotes by Robert Greene (Top 10)

  1. Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.
  2. Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself "“ your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose "“ they want to keep you down.
  3. Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others"”that is too high a price to pay.
  4. The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
  5. Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
  6. You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
  7. If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen and toughen yourself, or a call to collective action. By seeing it as a challenge, you will have converted this negative into a positive purely by a mental process that will result in positive action as well.
  8. Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as disabilities and try to work around them in order to fit in. But anything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.
  9. The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
  10. Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.