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 Law 1: Never Outshine the Master
 Always make those above you feel
comfortably superior. In your desire to
please or impress them, do not go too
far in displaying your talents or you might
accomplish the opposite – inspire fear
and insecurity. Make your masters
appear more brilliant than they are and
you will attain the heights of power.

 Law 2: Never put too Much Trust in Friends,
Learn how to use Enemies
 Be wary of friends-they will betray you more
quickly, for they are easily aroused to
envy. They also become spoiled and
tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he
will be more loyal than a friend, because he
has more to prove. In fact, you have more
to fear from friends than from enemies. If
you have no enemies, find a way to make
them.

 Law 3: Conceal your Intentions
 Keep people off-balance and in the
dark by never revealing the purpose
behind your actions. If they have no
clue what you are up to, they cannot
prepare a defense. Guide them far
enough down the wrong path, envelope
them in enough smoke, and by the time
they realize your intentions, it will be too
late.

 Law 4: Always Say Less than Necessary
 When you are trying to impress people with
words, the more you say, the more
common you appear, and the less in
control. Even if you are saying something
banal, it will seem original if you make it
vague, open-ended, and
sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and
intimidate by saying less. The more you say,
the more likely you are to say something
foolish.

 Law 5: So Much Depends on Reputation –
Guard it with your Life
 Reputation is the cornerstone of
power. Through reputation alone you can
intimidate and win; once you slip, however,
you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all
sides. Make your reputation
unassailable. Always be alert to potential
attacks and thwart them before they
happen. Meanwhile, learn to destroy your
enemies by opening holes in their own
reputations. Then stand aside and let public
opinion hang them.

 Law 6: Court Attention at all Cost
 Everything is judged by its appearance;
what is unseen counts for nothing. Never
let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or
buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be
conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a
magnet of attention by appearing
larger, more colorful, more mysterious,
than the bland and timid masses.

 Law 7: Get others to do the Work for you,
but Always Take the Credit
 Use the wisdom, knowledge, and legwork
of other people to further your own
cause. Not only will such assistance save
you valuable time and energy, it will give
you a godlike aura of efficiency and
speed. In the end your helpers will be
forgotten and you will be
remembered. Never do yourself what
others can do for you.

 Law 8: Make other People come to you –
use Bait if Necessary
 When you force the other person to act,
you are the one in control. It is always
better to make your opponent come to
you, abandoning his own plans in the
process. Lure him with fabulous gains –
then attack. You hold the cards.

 Law 9: Win through your Actions, Never
through Argument
 Any momentary triumph you think gained
through argument is really a Pyrrhic
victory: The resentment and ill will you stir
up is stronger and lasts longer than any
momentary change of opinion. It is much
more powerful to get others to agree with
you through your actions, without saying a
word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

 Law 10: Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and
Unlucky
 You can die from someone else’s misery –
emotional states are as infectious as
disease. You may feel you are helping the
drowning man but you are only
precipitating your own disaster. The
unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on
themselves; they will also draw it on
you. Associate with the happy and
fortunate instead.

 Law 11: Learn to Keep People
Dependent on You
 To maintain your independence you
must always be needed and
wanted. The more you are relied on, the
more freedom you have. Make people
depend on you for their happiness and
prosperity and you have nothing to
fear. Never teach them enough so that
they can do without you.

 Law 12: Use Selective Honesty and
Generosity to Disarm your Victim
 One sincere and honest move will cover
over dozens of dishonest ones. Open-
hearted gestures of honesty and generosity
bring down the guard of even the most
suspicious people. Once your selective
honesty opens a hole in their armor, you
can deceive and manipulate them at
will. A timely gift – a Trojan horse – will serve
the same purpose.

 Law 13: When Asking for Help, Appeal to
People’s Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy
or Gratitude
 If you need to turn to an ally for help, do
not bother to remind him of your past
assistance and good deeds. He will find a
way to ignore you. Instead, uncover
something in your request, or in your
alliance with him, that will benefit him, and
emphasize it out of all proportion. He will
respond enthusiastically when he sees
something to be gained for himself.

 Law 14: Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy
 Knowing about your rival is critical. Use
spies to gather valuable information that
will keep you a step ahead. Better still:
Play the spy yourself. In polite social
encounters, learn to probe. Ask indirect
questions to get people to reveal their
weaknesses and intentions. There is no
occasion that is not an opportunity for
artful spying.

 Law 15: Crush your Enemy Totally
 All great leaders since Moses have known
that a feared enemy must be crushed
completely. (Sometimes they have learned
this the hard way.) If one ember is left
alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a
fire will eventually break out. More is lost
through stopping halfway than through
total annihilation: The enemy will recover,
and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only
in body but in spirit.

 Law 16: Use Absence to Increase
Respect and Honor
 Too much circulation makes the price go
down: The more you are seen and
heard from, the more common you
appear. If you are already established in
a group, temporary withdrawal from it
will make you more talked about, even
more admired. You must learn when to
leave. Create value through scarcity.

 Law 17: Keep Others in Suspended Terror:
Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
 Humans are creatures of habit with an
insatiable need to see familiarity in other
people’s actions. Your predictability gives
them a sense of control. Turn the tables: Be
deliberately unpredictable. Behavior that
seems to have no consistency or purpose
will keep them off-balance, and they will
wear themselves out trying to explain your
moves. Taken to an extreme, this strategy
can intimidate and terrorize.

 Law 18: Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect
Yourself – Isolation is Dangerous
 The world is dangerous and enemies are
everywhere – everyone has to protect
themselves. A fortress seems the safest. But
isolation exposes you to more dangers than
it protects you from – it cuts you off from
valuable information, it makes you
conspicuous and an easy target. Better to
circulate among people find allies,
mingle. You are shielded from your
enemies by the crowd.

 Law 19: Know Who You’re Dealing with – Do
Not Offend the Wrong Person
 There are many different kinds of people in
the world, and you can never assume that
everyone will react to your strategies in the
same way. Deceive or outmaneuver some
people and they will spend the rest of their
lives seeking revenge. They are wolves in
lambs’ clothing. Choose your victims and
opponents carefully, then – never offend or
deceive the wrong person.

 Law 20: Do Not Commit to Anyone
 It is the fool who always rushes to take
sides. Do not commit to any side or
cause but yourself. By maintaining your
independence, you become the master
of others – playing people against one
another, making them pursue you.

 Law 21: Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker
– Seem Dumber than your Mark
 No one likes feeling stupider than the
next persons. The trick, is to make your
victims feel smart – and not just smart,
but smarter than you are. Once
convinced of this, they will never suspect
that you may have ulterior motives.

 Law 22: Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform
Weakness into Power
 When you are weaker, never fight for
honor’s sake; choose surrender
instead. Surrender gives you time to
recover, time to torment and irritate your
conqueror, time to wait for his power to
wane. Do not give him the satisfaction of
fighting and defeating you – surrender
first. By turning the other check you
infuriate and unsettle him. Make surrender
a tool of power.

 Law 23: Concentrate Your Forces
 Conserve your forces and energies by
keeping them concentrated at their
strongest point. You gain more by finding a
rich mine and mining it deeper, than by
flitting from one shallow mine to another –
intensity defeats extensity every
time. When looking for sources of power to
elevate you, find the one key patron, the
fat cow who will give you milk for a long
time to come.

 Law 24: Play the Perfect Courtier
 The perfect courtier thrives in a world
where everything revolves around power
and political dexterity. He has mastered
the art of indirection; he flatters, yields to
superiors, and asserts power over others
in the mot oblique and graceful
manner. Learn and apply the laws of
courtiership and there will be no limit to
how far you can rise in the court.

 Law 25: Re-Create Yourself
 Do not accept the roles that society foists
on you. Re-create yourself by forging a
new identity, one that commands attention
and never bores the audience. Be the
master of your own image rather than
letting others define if for you. Incorporate
dramatic devices into your public gestures
and actions – your power will be enhanced
and your character will seem larger than
life.

 Law 26: Keep Your Hands Clean
 You must seem a paragon of civility and
efficiency: Your hands are never soiled
by mistakes and nasty deeds. Maintain
such a spotless appearance by using
others as scapegoats and cat’s-paws to
disguise your involvement.

 Law 27: Play on People’s Need to Believe to
Create a Cultlike Following
 People have an overwhelming desire to
believe in something. Become the focal point
of such desire by offering them a cause, a new
faith to follow. Keep your words vague but full
of promise; emphasize enthusiasm over
rationality and clear thinking. Give your new
disciples rituals to perform, ask them to make
sacrifices on your behalf. In the absence of
organized religion and grand causes, your new
belief system will bring you untold power.

 Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness
 If you are unsure of a course of action,
do not attempt it. Your doubts and
hesitations will infect your execution.
Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with
boldness. Any mistakes you commit
through audacity are easily corrected
with more audacity. Everyone admires
the bold; no one honors the timid.

 Law 29: Plan All the Way to the End
 The ending is everything. Plan all the way
to it, taking into account all the possible
consequences, obstacles, and twists of
fortune that might reverse your hard work
and give the glory to others. By planning to
the end you will not be overwhelmed by
circumstances and you will know when to
stop. Gently guide fortune and help
determine the future by thinking far ahead.

 Law 30: Make your Accomplishments Seem
Effortless
 Your actions must seem natural and
executed with ease. All the toil and
practice that go into them, and also all the
clever tricks, must be concealed. When
you act, act effortlessly, as if you could do
much more. Avoid the temptation of
revealing how hard you work – it only raises
questions. Teach no one your tricks or they
will be used against you.

 Law 31: Control the Options: Get Others to Play
with the Cards you Deal
 The best deceptions are the ones that seem to
give the other person a choice: Your victims
feel they are in control, but are actually your
puppets. Give people options that come out
in your favor whichever one they choose.
Force them to make choices between the
lesser of two evils, both of which serve your
purpose. Put them on the horns of a dilemma:
They are gored wherever they turn.

 Law 32: Play to People’s Fantasies
 The truth is often avoided because it is ugly
and unpleasant. Never appeal to truth and
reality unless you are prepared for the
anger that comes for disenchantment. Life
is so harsh and distressing that people who
can manufacture romance or conjure up
fantasy are like oases in the desert:
Everyone flocks to them. There is great
power in tapping into the fantasies of the
masses.

 Law 33: Discover Each Man’s
Thumbscrew
 Everyone has a weakness, a gap in the
castle wall. That weakness is usual y an
insecurity, an uncontrollable emotion or
need; it can also be a small secret
pleasure. Either way, once found, it is a
thumbscrew you can turn to your
advantage.

 Law 34: Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act
like a King to be treated like one
 The way you carry yourself will often
determine how you are treated; In the long
run, appearing vulgar or common will make
people disrespect you. For a king respects
himself and inspires the same sentiment in
others. By acting regally and confident of
your powers, you make yourself seem
destined to wear a crown.

 Law 35: Master the Art of Timing
 Never seem to be in a hurry – hurrying
betrays a lack of control over yourself, and
over time. Always seem patient, as if you
know that everything will come to you
eventually. Become a detective of the
right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times,
the trends that will carry you to power.
Learn to stand back when the time is not
yet ripe, and to strike fiercely when it has
reached fruition.

 Law 36: Disdain Things you cannot have:
Ignoring them is the best Revenge
 By acknowledging a petty problem you give it
existence and credibility. The more attention
you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him;
and a small mistake is often made worse and
more visible when you try to fix it. It is
sometimes best to leave things alone. If there
is something you want but cannot have, show
contempt for it. The less interest you reveal, the
more superior you seem.

 Law 37: Create Compelling Spectacles
 Striking imagery and grand symbolic
gestures create the aura of power –
everyone responds to them. Stage
spectacles for those around you, then
full of arresting visuals and radiant
symbols that heighten your presence.
Dazzled by appearances, no one will
notice what you are really doing.

 Law 38
 Think as you like but Behave like others
 If you make a show of going against the times,
flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox
ways, people will think that you only want attention
and that you look down upon them. They will find a
way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is
far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch.
Share your originality only with tolerant friends and
those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

 Law 39
 Stir up Waters to Catch Fish
 Anger and emotion are strategically
counterproductive. You must always stay
calm and objective. But if you can make
your enemies angry while staying calm
yourself, you gain a decided advantage.
Put your enemies off-balance: Find the
chink in their vanity through which you can
rattle them and you hold the strings.

 Law 40
 Despise the Free Lunch
 What is offered for free is dangerous – it usually
involves either a trick or a hidden obligation.
What has worth is worth paying for. By paying
your own way you stay clear of gratitude, guilt,
and deceit. It is also often wise to pay the full
price – there is no cutting corners with
excellence. Be lavish with your money and
keep it circulating, for generosity is a sign and a
magnet for power.

 Law 41
 Avoid Stepping into a Great Man’s Shoes
 What happens first always appears better and more
original than what comes after. If you succeed a
great man or have a famous parent, you will have to
accomplish double their achievements to outshine
them. Do not get lost in their shadow, or stuck in a
past not of your own making: Establish your own
name and identity by changing course. Slay the
overbearing father, disparage his legacy, and gain
power by shining in your own way.

 Law 42
 Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter
 Trouble can often be traced to a single strong
individual – the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the
poisoned of goodwill. If you allow such people room
to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do
not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do
not try to negotiate with them – they are
irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating
or banishing them. Strike at the source of the trouble
and the sheep will scatter.

 Law 43
 Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others
 Coercion creates a reaction that will eventually work
against you. You must seduce others into wanting to
move in your direction. A person you have seduced
becomes your loyal pawn. And the way to seduce
others is to operate on their individual psychologies
and weaknesses. Soften up the resistant by working
on their emotions, playing on what they hold dear
and what they fear. Ignore the hearts and minds of
others and they will grow to hate you.

 Law 44
 Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
 The mirror reflects reality, but it is also the perfect tool
for deception: When you mirror your enemies, doing
exactly as they do, they cannot figure out your
strategy. The Mirror Effect mocks and humiliates
them, making them overreact. By holding up a mirror
to their psyches, you seduce them with the illusion
that you share their values; by holding up a mirror to
their actions, you teach them a lesson. Few can resist
the power of Mirror Effect.

 Law 45
 Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too
much at Once
 Everyone understands the need for change in the
abstract, but on the day-to-day level people are
creatures of habit. Too much innovation is traumatic,
and will lead to revolt. If you are new to a position of
power, or an outsider trying to build a power base,
make a show of respecting the old way of doing
things. If change is necessary, make it feel like a
gentle improvement on the past.

 Law 46
 Never appear too Perfect
 Appearing better than others is always
dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to
appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy
creates silent enemies. It is smart to
occasionally display defects, and admit to
harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and
appear more human and approachable. 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
 The moment of victory is often the moment of
greatest peril. In the heat of victory, arrogance
and overconfidence can push you past the
goal you had aimed for, and by going too far,
you make more enemies than you defeat. Do
not allow success to go to your head. There is
no substitute for strategy and careful planning.
Set a goal, and when you reach it, 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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