The 48 Laws of Power

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior.  In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your ta...

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 ...

The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest peril. In the heat of victory, arrogance and overconfidence can push you past the g...

Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates sil...

Everyone understands the need for change in the abstract, but on the day-to-day level people are creatures of habit. Too much innovation ...