48 Laws Of Power Flashcards

(48 cards)

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What is Law 1?

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Never Outshine The Master

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What is Law 2?

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Never Put Too Much Trust in Friends, learn how to use enemies

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What is Law 3

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Conceal Your Intentions

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What is Law 4

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Always Say Less than necessary

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5
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What is law 5

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So much depends on your reputation-guard it with your life

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What is law 6

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Court attention at all cos

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What is law 7

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Get others to do the work for you but always take credit

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What is law 8?

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Make other people come to you use bait if necessary

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What is Law 9?

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Win through action, never through argument

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What is law 10?

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Infection: Avoid the unhappy or unlucky

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What is law 11?

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Learn to keep people dependent on you

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What is law 12

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Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victims

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What is law 13

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When asking for help, appeal to people’s self interest and never to their mercy or gratitude

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What is law 14

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Pose as a friend work as a spy

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What is law 15

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Crush your enemies totally

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What is law 16

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Use absence to increase respect and honor

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What is law 17?

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Keep others in suspended terror: Cultivate an air of impredictability

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What is law 18?

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Do not build fortresses to protect yourself isolation is dangerous

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What is law 19?

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Know who you’re dealing with, do not offend the wrong person

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What is law 20?

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Do not commit to anyone

21
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What is law 21?

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Play a sucker to catch a sucker

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What is law 22?

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Use the surrender tactic: Transform weakness into power

23
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What is law 23?

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Concentrate your forces

24
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What is law 24?

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Play the perfect courtier

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What is law 25?
Re-create yourself
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What is law 26
Keep your hands clean
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what is law 27?
Play on peoples need to believe to create a cult like following
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What is law 28?
Enter action with boldness
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What is law 29?
Plan all the way to the end
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What is law 30?
Make your accomplishments seem effortless
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What is law 31?
Control the options: Get other to play with the cards you deal
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What is law 32?
Play to peoples fantasies
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What is law 33?
Discover each mans thumbscrew
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What is law 34?
Be royal in your own fashion: Act like a king to be treated like one
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What is law 35?
Master the art of timing
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What is law 36?
Disdain things you cannot have: Ignoring then is the best revenge
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What is law 37?
Create compelling spectacles
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What is law 38?
Think as you like but behave like others
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What is law 39?
Stir up waters to catch fish
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What is law 40?
Despise the free lunch
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What is law 41?
Avoid stepping into a great man’s shoes
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What is law 42?
Strike the shepherd and the sheep’s will scatter
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What is law 43?
Work on the hearts and minds of others
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What is law 44?
Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect
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What is law 45?
Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once
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What is law 46?
Never appear too perfect
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What is law 47?
Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop
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What is law 48
Assume formlessness