Quotes from Robert Greene

Win through your actions, never through argument.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

I'm a big believer in being an entrepreneur. It's easy for me to say because I work for myself and I am someone who likes that process. You have control over your destiny.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It's not an intellectual thing. It's almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.

To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.

Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.