Know Who You’re Dealing With – Don’t Offend the Wrong Person Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself – Isolation is Dangerous Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor When Asking for Help, Appeal to the Self-interests of Others, Never to Their Mercy or Gratitude Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm Your Victim Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and the Unlucky Win Through Your Actions, Never Through Argument Make Other People Come to You – Use Bait if Necessary Get Others to Do the Work for You, but Always Take the Credit So Much Depends on Reputation – Guard It With Your Life
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Kirkus Reviews said Greene offers no evidence to support his world view, Greene's laws contradict each other, and the book is "simply nonsense". Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer said that Greene's so-called laws are based on isolated examples, and not on solid research. The book has been banned by several US prisons. Former Cuban President Fidel Castro is also claimed by the book's author to have read the book. Dov Charney, founder and former CEO of American Apparel, frequently quoted the laws during board meetings, has given friends and employees copies of the book, and appointed Greene to the board of American Apparel. The 48 Laws of Power has also been mentioned in songs by UGK, Jay Z, Kanye West, and Drake. DJ Premier has a tattoo inspired from Law #5, "Reputation is the cornerstone of power", on his arm and DJ Calvin Harris has an "Enter with boldness" arm tattoo based on Law #28.
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Busta Rhymes and Derrius Jackson used The 48 Laws of Power to deal with problematic movie producers. Rapper 50 Cent stated that he related to the book "immediately", and approached Greene with the prospect of a potential collaboration, which would later become The 50th Law, another New York Times bestseller. The 48 Laws of Power has been reported to be much requested in American prison libraries, and has been studied as a first-year text in some US colleges. Fast Company called the book a "mega cult classic", and The Los Angeles Times noted that The 48 Laws of Power turned Greene into a "cult hero with the hip-hop set, Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike". The 48 Laws of Power has sold over 1.2 million copies in the United States and has been translated into 24 languages.
He would note this as the turning point of his life. Greene wrote the treatment, which later became The 48 Laws of Power. However, at the time Greene was rereading his favorite biography about Julius Caesar and took inspiration from Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon River and fight Pompey, thus inciting the Great Roman Civil War. Īlthough Greene was unhappy in his job, he was comfortable and saw the time needed to write a proper book proposal as too risky. Greene pitched a book about power to Elffers and six months later, Elffers requested that Greene write a treatment. In 1995, Greene worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers. Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in The 48 Laws of Power while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history.
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