- Realize early on that the less you say about your work, the more people will talk about it. And the more they talk, the more valuable your work become – The 48 Laws of Power
- The way to develop self-confidence, he said, is to do the thing you fear to do and get a record of successful experiences behind you – How to Win Friends and Influence People
- This is why you must guard against entering an open system— and understand the risk you take if you do so. With open systems, there is no end to reach, no point at which you can ever be finished, and an almost infinite number of ways to become distracted. As a result, you can end up wasting hours of your time each day. In short, open systems create distractions. Instead, you should strive to design closed systems – Dopamine Detox
- You have to take immediate action on your new insights and knowledge. Ideas uninvested are wasted. You don’t want that to happen. It’s now time to act on your new convictions. You now have the power, and I expect you to seize it! – The Compound Effect
- To show your frustration is to show that you have lost your power to shape events; it is the helpless action of the child who resorts to a hysterical fit to get his way. The powerful never reveal this kind of weakness – The 48 Laws of Power
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