The 48 laws of power
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. It outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great t...
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New York, New York, U.S.A. :
Penguin Books,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Never outshine the master
- Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies
- Conceal your intentions
- Always say less than necessary
- So much depends on reputation : guard it with your life
- Court attention at all cost
- Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit
- Make other people come to you : use bait if necessary
- Win through your actions, never through argument
- Infection : avoid the unhappy and the unlucky
- Learn to keep people dependent on you
- Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim
- When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
- Pose as a friend, work as a spy
- Crush your enemy totally
- Use absence to increase respect and honor
- Keep others in suspended terror : cultivate an air of unpredictability
- Do not build fortresses to protect yourself-- isolation is dangerous
- Know who you're dealing with-- do not offend the wrong person
- Do not commit to anyone
- Play a sucker to catch a sucker : seem dumber than your mark
- Use the surrender tactic : transform weakness into power
- Concentrate your forces
- Play the perfect courtier
- Re-create yourself
- Keep your hands clean
- Play on people's need to believe to create a cultlike following
- Enter action with boldness
- Plan all the way to the end
- Make your accomplishments seem effortless
- Control the options : get others to play with the cards you deal
- Play to people's fantasies
- Discover each man's thumbscrew
- Be royal in your own fashion : act like a king to be treated like one
- Master the art of timing
- Disdain things you cannot have : ignoring them is the best revenge
- Create compelling spectacles
- Think as you like but behave like others
- Stir up waters to catch fish
- Despise the free lunch
- Avoid stepping into a great man's shoes
- Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
- Work on the hearts and minds of others
- Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect
- Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once
- Never appear too perfect
- Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop
- Assume formlessness.
