48 laws of power

1. Never outshine the master.
2. Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies.
3. Conceal your intention.
4. Always say less than necessary
5. So much depends on reputation - guard it with your life.
6. Court attention at all cost.
7. Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit.
8. Win through your action, never through arguments.
9. Make other people come to you, use bait(allure) if necessary.
10. Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky.
11. Learn to keep people dependent on you.
 12. Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim.
13. When asking help appeal to self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude.
14. Pose as friend, work as spy.
15. Crush your enemy totally.
16. Use absence to increase respect and honor.
17. Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability.
18. Do not build fortuitousness's (A military stronghold) to protect yourself-isolation in dangerous.
19. Know who you are dealing with - do not offend the wrong person.
20. Do not commit to anyone.
21. Play a sucker to catch a sucker- seem dumber than you mark.
22. Use the surrender tactic: transform weakness in power.
23. Concentrate your forces.
24. Play a perfect courtier.
25. Re-create yourself.
26. Keep your hands clean.
27. Play on people's need to believe, to create a cult like (devotion directed toward a particular figure) following.
28. Enter action with boldness.
29. plan all the way to the end.
30. Make your accomplishments seems effortless. ( your action mush seem natural and executed with ease)
31. Control the options: Get other to play with the card you deal. ( give options that come out in your favor whichever they choose).
32. Play to people's fantasies.
33. Discover each man's thumbscrew (weakness can be used to your advantage).
34. Be royal in you own fashion: act life a king to be treated like a king.
35. Master the art of timing. ( always seem patient, as if you know that every thing will come to you eventually.)
36. Disdain (unworthy) things you cannot have: Ignore them is the best revenge.
37.  Create compelling (evoking interest, attention) spectacles ( a visually striking performance or display).
38. Think as you like but behave life others.
39. Stir (Prison) up waters to catch fish.
40. Despise the free lunch. [What is offered four free is dangerous]
41. Avoid stepping into a great mans shoes. [ make you own identity]
42. Strike the shepherd (cowboy) and the sheep will scatter 9throw in various random direction).
43. Work on the hearts and mind of others. [ You must seduce others into wanting to move in your direction]
44. Disarm and infuriate (madden, anger0 with the mirror effect [when you mirror your enemies, doing exactly as they do, they cannot figure out your strategy]
45. Preach (publicly proclaim or teach) the need for change, but never reform too much at once.
46. Never appear too perfect.
47. Do not go past the mark you aimed for, in victory, learn when to stop.
48. Assume formlessness [No shape].