The 48 Laws of Power

“because the 40 laws of power had been out for a long time by the time I read it. 10 years.”

“how do you reconcile that with the 48 Laws of Power”

“it's a work of art where he captured the through lines between all these different schools of thought all these different eras of history of what made people do what they did and how they achiev those things”

“and Robert says this the the the 48 Laws of Power is not immoral it's amoral”

“and then when you read his other books particularly Mastery then then then you sort of unlock the puzzle that is Robert Green which is someone who loves I think what's so fascinating about the 40 power is just how beautifully it's designed and the the she like the thousands of books that went into reading it's a gorgeous book”

“so I always had a copy of the 40 law power on my desk uh and somehow the main guy who's not my boss gets this sense that I'm this like kid who's plotting”

“I'll recommend Robert Green's works and people go oh it's so awful I'm like if you think that you're the person who needs to read it more than anyone because you are saying that because you don't like something or you don't want it to be true that it's not true”

“so I guess in the 48 Laws of Power the final law which I think a lot of people Miss is assume formlessness”

“So I guess in the 48 Laws of Power, the final law, which I think a lot of people miss, is assume formlessness. So there's all these laws about do this, don’t do this, do this, don’t do this, but the last law is a kind of a strategic flexibility.”

“um so I read the 48 Laws of power when I was in high school and I was like make books like this you I think some it's so amazing when you read something”

“Um, so I read The 48 Laws of Power when I was in high school, and I was like, 'Make books like this!' I think some—it's so amazing when you read something, and people have this, I think with music more often than books, probably, where you're like, 'I didn’t know that was a thing, that you could do that,”

“um so yeah the 40 of power was a book long underground”

“Yeah, and the one thing I wish he would do is write, you know, like I just wrote a memoir as you know, Government Chiefs, right? Where I sort of went back and told my stories, right? I would love to hear his stories; he should do that. When is he in Europe? Who did he meet? You know, it”

“so um I had his like books on my desk and uh one of which was the 48 LS of power and the the manager of the comp the one of the partners at the company”

“Yeah, so I was working for Robert Green at the time, and so um, I had his like books on my desk, and one of which was the 48 Laws of Power, and the manager of the comp, the one of the partners at the company, one of the partners was a fan; that's who hired me, who I was”

“and then um I was a research assistant for this guy Robert Green who WR the 48 lots of power and all these amazing books and he like he showed me how books were made”

“I was a research assistant for this guy, Robert Greene, who wrote The 48 Laws of Power and all these amazing books, and he like showed me how books were made. Um, because as his assistant, I'm like doing all, but I was like, oh this is just a process.”

“I've always loved that the 48 Laws of powers is a sort of book of yeah Robert Green Book right”

“I've always loved that the 48 Laws of powers is a sort of book of yeah Robert Green Book”

“You choose how you use them, and I think Robert's first law of power is never outshine the master, right? His point is that people are fundamentally jealous and insecure and don’t want other people to succeed.”

“so it's you know i think this is a key point in the 48 laws of power”

“and it's kind of a tricky thing because if you go 48 laws of power maybe they get turned off because it's dark”

“because i remember correctly you told me once that the original plan for the 40 laws of power was 52 laws which could have been a week you know of reading uh a passage a week”

“He um actually had the 48 laws of power and um when he died his estate had the book and they auctioned it. Somebody bought it for $300,000.”

“never outshine the master. I violated that law at least two times, maybe even three times. I'm a flawed human being. So, I'm not the epitome of the 48 laws of power.”

“but when I had the chance to write the 48 Laws power my first book”

“there's an interview with Jay-Z and Jay-Z quotes the 48 Laws of Power”

“all of those people went into the 48 Laws of Power”

“and some of it goes beyond the 48 Laws of Power which I've tried to indicate in my other books”

“I talk about it in the 48 Laws of Power where you have to play this this game in life”

“well to be honest with you it came the idea for it was around the year 2010 2009 I was getting a little worried that people who were reading my books particularly young men who were reading power and seduction they cut they were thinking that's all I need in life man I just need to be a manipulator”

“So law number one is never outshine the master. And the idea is that if you try too hard to impress your boss or the person above you, you're liable to make them feel insecure.”

“after the book came out, my first book, The 48 Laws, became hugely popular in the hip-hop world among musicians, which is why I ended up doing a book with 50 Cent.”

“Um you know, when I first came up with the 48 Laws of Power way back in '95, I wasn't writing from a position of power, right?”

“And the book, The 48 Laws of Power, really really helped him navigate that world.”

“although in the end it gave me all the material for the 48 loss of power”

“well i had the experience very weird experience with the 48 laws of power when it first came out i would go it's my very first book tour and i would go to”

“like also in the audience dude in the 48 law”

“one thing i talk about in the 48 laws i think is very relevant”

“I did that kind of indirectly with the 48 laws because I prior to that book I was working in Hollywood and everyone sort stew pretend they're so liberal”

“you know like I remember early on when I the 48 laws of power people would say boy Robert you know that book must be selling really well”

“you know in the 48 laws of power and his chapter on Envy it was called never appear to perfect”

“Courtney Love uh was a big reader of the 48 Laws of Power she she used it in one of her lawsuits against the music industry”

“First, I'm just going to read you from Robert Green who came on the podcast. Really interesting guy wrote 48 Laws of Power. Law number 25. Recreate yourself.”

“We had Robert Green from 48 Laws of Power on the pod like two weeks ago or something like that. And um yeah, he kind of we we Have you ever heard 48 Laws of Power? It's like the book is what it sounds like. I own the book. I think I breezed through it. I haven't read all of”

“you could do the same thing with you get the new in the matrix moment where you see the code you're like ah okay yeah it's pretty cool. He's like are so you telling me I'll be able to dodge bullets.”

“so you sent me a text last night and you sent uh you said uh rule number one never outshine the master Elon Musk and you're referring to the 48 Laws of Power how to be powerful”

“uh he he did a really good job of have you read that book 48 Laws of Power like one of the laws of power is like change your identity occasionally”

“Robert Green is one of my favorite authors he's got this awesome book called the 48 Laws of Power and I remember reading it when I was trying to get sober and I think it's like chapter 25 and he's got this chapter about recreating your identity”

“so I read so many books when I was trying to get sober uh I talked about the 48 Laws of Power that was a great one Mastery by Robert Green that was another good one”

“And you know if you read that book 48 Laws of Power one of the rules is to change your image constantly.”

“I was wondering why your book power is still selling unbelievably well I mean most books when they come out they have their moment and then they're done”

“um which is kind of linked to what you're saying now the 48 Laws of Power”

“and it reminds me of law 48 in the 48 Laws of Power which is to assume formlessness”

“what is it at the heart of the 48 Laws of Power that some people are triggered by”

“from what I read you had a lot of different jobs and a lot of different Industries up until the point when you wrote um the first of your many books called the 48 Laws of Power back in 1998”

“give me an idea of the success of that book the 48 Laws of Power because I mean I've seen it everywhere for for as long as I've been looking at books so what's the give me some quantify the global success of that book”

“I'm talking about the 48 Laws of Power here where it says never trust friends too much”

“I decided to read his entire book, which at the time I think was it was it was either the 48 laws of power or like the one after that.”

“if you like this conversation you're going to love our conversation with the author of 48 Laws of Power Robert Green”

“So and I know from the emails I've gotten since that book came out 23 years ago. You're talking about 48 Laws of Power? Sure.”

“I think the 48 laws of power might have branded you a little bit as like wow if he's using all these he lives in a cave with like nuclear missiles”

“and I think a lot of people grab this from the 48 laws of power they go”

“but it did really did get highlighted when I read the laws of human nature I was looking at all these things I was doing”

“first off everyone needs to go and pick up uh the 25th anniversary edition of 48 Lo of power”

“uh you should buy the 25th anniversary edition of 48 Laws of Power just came out last year yeah leather bound gold emboss I have”

“was it 36 when you got the book offer for 48 laws well i was 36 when i pitched it to to the man who packaged at yoast”

“I've also had Robert Greene the guy that wrote for yet lost power and mastery and laws of human nature and stuff like that”

“so I have a very lovely story to tell you actually about one of the guys behind the modern wisdom project guy called Jordan who said that your book 48 laws of power was the sole reason that he studied history at university”

“that's a wonderful gift to have 48 Laws of Power right there”

“you've written so much man 48 Laws of Power um Mastery are the books that I've um absorb the most of”

“the 48 Laws of Power is second most banned book in prisons D”

“he wrote a book called the 48 Laws of Power”

“and then 48 Laws of Power you know became this massive hit and I believe that was his first kind of main book that he wrote in his series”

“and then 48 Laws of Power you know became this massive hit and I believe that was his first kind of main book that he wrote in his series and it was written differently it looked different than all these other books out there”

“the 48 laws I can't read yeah 40 it was the already at laws of power and then mastery”

“you have is it The 48 Laws? Yeah, 48 Laws.”

“Then The 48 Laws of Power do a great job of explaining that.”

“the other thing that I get a lot which is weird because I didn't write it but people go like and so how do you square like all this stuff with the 48 Laws of Power or whatever like well I didn't write it”

“The other thing I get a lot, which is weird because I didn't write it, is people ask me how I square all this stuff with the 48 Laws of Power or whatever. Well, I didn't write it, so it’s not my job.”

“And, and again, it was sort of with luck where somebody came to him and said, Hey, I want you to write this book and the 48 laws of power.”

“I would not say that applies to, say, the 48 Laws of Power, where Robert Greene really gave it, you know, a massive amount of stuff.”

“And that's, the first one is from like Robert Green's books, 'The 48 Laws of Power', which is never outshine the master, right? Trump is a more veteran statesman than him by virtue of being A, the president and being older, right?”

“from like Robert Green's books, "The 48 Laws of Power", which is never outshine the master,”

“The 48 Laws of Power 1998. The Art of Seduction 2001.”

“And this is the 48 laws of power from the 48 laws of power law 21.”

“but i go back one page of art of the deal and one page of 48 laws of power”

“i go back one page of art of the deal and one page of 48 laws of power”

“like if you've if you've read Robert Greene's 48 laws of power”

“like if you've if you've read Robert Greene's 48 laws of power right there's so many different laws and a lot of them are contradictory”

“he helped the author Robert Greene do research so Robert Greene wrote 48 laws of power and some other great books”

“so Robert Greene wrote 48 laws of power and some other great books he simply did was like a research assistant for Robert Greene”

“can you be punished 48 laws of power I know you know the authors agree that book is not allowed in federal prisons”

“and then in time if they take the time to read we talked about 48 laws of power or Manson's book you know Mark's book”

“Robert Green they say this about his book right 48 laws of power like I think one of the like marketing stickticks which I don't know if he completely made up or is true and then he used it to like to to market his book, but it was this book is banned from prisons because because they don't want”

“have you read the book The 48 Laws of Power I have yes it's a very interesting book”

“Like if you look at 48 laws, where do you feel like you've had the largest margin of improvement?”

“Uh I've always been a fan of your books and you sent me this beautiful limited edition version, which I'm getting to show off on the show. Uh but The 48 Laws, what a what a phenomenal book.”

“Achieving such a milestone may initially feel fulfilling, but once it’s attained, expectations often lead to disappointment, demonstrating the arrival fallacy. Roberts Green’s work 'The 48 Laws of Power' illustrates the strategic navigation required to embrace life while maintaining healthy boundaries. Approaching it without preordained notions allows you to leverage insights from his work while embracing your unique journey.”

“I would say if you read 48 Laws of Power Mastery and the laws of human nature you could read those three books over and over”

“maybe this he's read too much Robert Green 48 loss of power”

“and I met Dove through Robert Green who wrote the 40 power talk about in the book”

“there is a there is a uh one of the one of the chapters in in Robert Green's 40 Laws of Power where and the book is about the attainment of power”

“and you know something we'll get to talk about Robert Green in your past with him later but something that was before I even read the 48 Laws of Power any of that the cover was enough for me to go like oh I that's what I want”

“The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene has a powerful last law: assume formlessness. Rigidity is incredibly vulnerable compared to flexibility and the proficiency to adapt.”

“so I graduated to like 48 Laws of Power”

“So like when I listened I listened to the Robert Greene one and the the first book is in my I'd say like adult life that I ever put like real intention into reading was 48 Laws of Power and I read it at a in a moment that like I think like one of the key things in my”

“robert greenlease book is the most problem it this is a this is the 48 laws of power by Robert Greene green”

“I've also had Robert Greene the guy that wrote for yet lost power and mastery and laws of human nature and stuff like that I don't know whether you know this but the reason that Robert Greene made 48 laws of power the way that he did he says that it is a cookbook with ingredients but not a recipe”

“so if you google like 48 laws of power or summary I think I'm like in the top three that come up for that and that you know but a lot of traffic to the site”

“I found that book Robert Green's 48 Laws of Power before IID met you and and I was in kind of a dark time in in my own work climate”

“So for mastery, how many books did you consume to write that one or 48 laws of power?”

“But the second thing is that particularly with the 48 laws of power, the most important thing is self-control, which is quite challenging.”

“he features very prominently in um the popular book I'm forgetting 48 Laws of Power there are a ton of Toran quotes”

“Um, and so to me knowing like from reading the 48 laws of power, it's very similar to jiu-jitsu.”

“and then in time if they take the time to read we talked about 48 laws of power or Manson's book”

“105 01:30 my pleasure 106 01:35 Chris thanks for inviting me 107 01:39 so I have a very lovely story to tell you actually about one of the guys behind the modern wisdom project guy called Jordan who said that your book 48 laws of power was the sole reason that he studied history at university 108 01:44 apparently apparently”

“So you almost don't need to caveat it that if if you're the sort of person that's reading Robert Green's 48 Laws of Power and is thinking about what time they get up and tracking their Whoop scores, like you've already pre-selected.”

“Is that Robert Green's face on the 48 Laws of Power? Oh my god. That is one of the most terrifying things I keep looking at like over your over your shoulder.”

“and I just improvised what would turn into the 48 Laws of Power”

“I know I'm sounding not like the guy who wrote the 48 Laws of Power”

“I was sat here um yesterday with the wonderful gentleman who I'm a big fan of called Robert Green who wrote the book about power mhm 48 Laws of Power”

“He features very prominently in um the popular book I'm forgetting 48 Laws of Power there are a ton of Toran quotes”

“so my mentor was this guy Robert Green who wrote the 408 Laws of Power and master he was this great writer”

“so my mentor was this guy Robert Green who wrote the 408 Laws of Power and master”

“and so I remember early on when the 48 Laws of Power maybe my I don't know how much later after that but I got contacted by this man who was a librarian head librarian at a library in Dade County Florida in a very Urban mostly black neighborhood and he said there were these kids that would come in”

“so I remember early on when the 48 Laws of Power maybe my I don't know how much later after that but I got contacted by this man who was a librarian”

“If you enjoyed this conversation, you will love our discussion with the author of The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene.”

“When I wrote like the 48 laws of power, there's an evil side to it.”

“So, in back in the day when I did the 48 laws of power, I'd actually go to a library, if you can believe that, right? I'm that old. And the library, you know, was like a magical journey.”

“And um I taught Ryan my system of taking note cards because I discovered when I was doing the 48 laws, I did a lot of research for that book in a very condensed period of time that the material was overwhelming me.”

“And when I wrote like the 48 laws of power, it's kind of a, you know, there's an evil side to it. There's a dark side to it. I won't deny it. And the tendency for people nowadays in our hyperartisan environment would be demoralized, to judge, you know, manipulation.”

“And so for me, I probably had the style prior to the 48 laws. I've been writing my whole life.”

“So the the kind of anger and violence of 48 was inappropriate to seduction, a little more appropriate to war, certainly appropriate to the book for 50 Cent, but not for mastery and not so much for human nature and certainly not for the sublime book.”

“Well, you know, some of the stories in in the 48 laws. I mean, there's a story of they had in in in Italy in the Renaissance these men that were called contieres who were like mercenary soldiers...”

“And so I remember early on when the 48 laws of power maybe I don't know how much later after that but I got contacted by this man who was a librarian head librarian at a library in Dade County Florida in a very urban mostly black neighborhood. And he said there were these kids that would come in they”

“I also wanted to say thank you for sending me the special edition of 48 Laws of Power”

“well I when I wrote the 48 Laws of Power I tried to”

“well when I wrote the 48 Laws of Power I tried to I have somebody through my whole life loves playing games”

“Today's guest is Robert Greene, the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, The Laws of Human Nature, and most recently of The Daily Laws.”

“And I've always hated, and it's probably why I wrote the 48 Laws of Power, I hate people who are pretending to be something that they're not.”

“You know, it's weird sometimes because before the 48 Laws of Power came out, I was just this nobody living in a two one bedroom apartment in Santa Monica...”

“So after the 48 Laws of Power came out and it was successful, I was at a turning point in my life. And it's a turning point that a lot of people I think have faced was do I just continue redoing the 48 Laws of Power? It was successful, it worked well.”

“i was also a research assistant for robert greene uh 40 odds power guys sure”

“that's part of 48 laws of power”

“today's guest is one of the bestselling authors of the last 20 years you may know him from his books the 48 Laws of Power and Mastery as well as The Art of Seduction and more books”

“what was it uh you know in a lot of your books you have The Art of Seduction you have um you have 48 Laws of Power you have Mastery”

“um so I wrote the 48 Laws of Power and prior of that book I was somebody who never had any power in life”

“I can honestly say I never intended in my life to write the 48 Laws of Power”

“I can honestly say I never intended in my life to write The 48 Laws of Power. I didn't start out at 8 years old saying, 'I'm going to write The 48 Laws of Power.'”

“well look he was a huge fan of the 48 Laws of Power he called it his Bible”

“Well, look, he was a huge fan of the 48 Laws of Power; he called it his Bible. Yeah, he called me El Señor, which is deeply blasphemous!”

“I learned that I can be a fool that I can be conned that I have a weakness that somebody the person who wrote about Conor and the 48 Laws of Power himself was conned”

“Robert Green is an author who has written more than five bestselling books including the 48 Laws of Power the laws of human nature and Mastery”

“Robert Greene is an author who has written more than five bestselling books, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, and Mastery.”

“I met Dov through Robert Greene, who wrote 'The 48 Laws of Power' that I talk about in the book.”

“we were in Italy at the time and I kind of improvised this idea that turned into the 48 Laws of Power it was sort of a nice chance encounter”

“and so I started writing stories like little Parables for the 48 Laws of Power”

“he wrote that book 40 Laws of Power he has another book that was way less popular called the 50th law”

“one of my first interviews I did for my show was with Robert Greene the writer he wrote a book called the 48 Laws of Power”

“One is is called the 48 Laws of Power bot or quote bot I believe another one is called the book of pook p-o-o-k and the 48 Laws of Power bot quote or quote bot is just like he's got a ton of quotes loaded into this and it has maybe two or three hundred thousand followers”

“one is called the 48 Laws of Power bot or quote bot”

“Well, you know that that it's a it's a bit manipulative when people write that because a great deal of the 48 laws of power.”

“My experience is um and what I wanted to help people with the 48 laws of power. When these things kind of happen, you get very confused”

“i thought it was like a perfect metaphor for the 48 laws”

“well he's also a bit like the character i wrote about in the 48 laws of power chuco liang”

“in my opinion the 48 laws of power”

“and so that's what sort of inspired my first book the 48 laws of power”

“and you know i give in in the 48 laws of power in that chapter i give you dozens of strategies for how you can make that put that to life”

“author of as you can see here mastery laws of human nature the 48 laws of power the 33 strategies of war 50th law and the art of seduction”

“he went and assisted Robert Greene five times New York Times bestselling author mastery 48 laws of power all that stuff”

“so he went and assisted Robert Greene five times New York Times bestselling author mastery 48 laws of power all that stuff and previous modern wisdom guests went and assisted him for free as a research a research assistant”

“so if you google like 48 laws of power or summary I think I'm like in the top three that come up for that”

“You [ __ ] read books like the 48 laws of power when you're young and you know you study all of these people who got to a certain point they all had like this this just this coldness about them”

“you [ __ ] read books like the 48 laws of power when you're young”

“for instance that was the subject of the 48 laws of power and we're self feel so guilty about this idea that we might be manipulated”

“well the main site is my old website which is power seduction and war calm those the titles of my first three books excuse me”

“starting with the 48 Laws of Power I basically decided to enter the self-help genre with a lot of trepidation because I think it's full of a lot of [ __ ] wait a minute hold on”

“now I know I have the 48 Laws of Power so I could be guilty of It 33 Strategies of War”