If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
Robert GreeneDeception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power
Robert GreeneGrand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
Robert GreeneEthics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that people operated by, but history is full of many, many people who have gotten power by very unethical means, and people who were very ethical, who get no power, people who have the most brilliant, lovely, wonderful, nice intentions and bring about horrible things in the world because they don't know how to play the power game.
Robert Greene