48
LAWS
OF POWER
The feeling of having no power over people and events is generally
unbearable to us. And when we feel helpless we feel miserable. No
one wants less power. Everyone wants more!
However, it is dangerous to seem too power hungry or to be overt
with your power moves. You must seem fair and decent. So you need
to be subtle --- congenial yet cunning! Democratic yet devious.
The laws have a simple premise, namely, that certain actions will
almost always certainly increase your power --- the observance of
the "LAW," while others decrease it and even ruin us --- the
transgression of the "LAW." These observances and transgressions
are illustrated by historical examples. The "LAWS" are timeless
and definitive!
Also, this book has been designed for browsing and for examining
the "LAW" that seems at a particular moment most pertinent to you.
Several of the "LAWS" specifically address the "master-underling"
or supervisor-subordinate relationship.
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
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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 are 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
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LAW 25
Re-create your life!
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 employee's thumbscrew!
LAW 34
Be royal in your own fashion act like a king or queen 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!
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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 shephere 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! Only gods and the dead can seem
perfect with impunity!
LAW 47
Do not go past the mark you aimed for in victory,
learn when to stop!
LAW 48
Assume formlessness!
By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself
to attack. Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp,
keep yourself adaptable and on the move.
Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed!
The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless
as water. Never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything
changes!
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