Top 15 Robert Greene Quotes

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful.

Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target.

You must value learning above everything else.

Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose, they want to keep you down.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

Understand this: society wants to assign you a role. As soon as you accept that role, you’re doomed.

Creating anything worthwhile is like a marathon, and you must train for it.

Find the deepest pleasure in absorbing knowledge and information. Feel like you never have enough.

Try the thing you don’t think you’re quite ready for.

People who are lazy and undisciplined are much more prone to feeling envy.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Rid yourself of the desire to find shortcuts.