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Law #2 Never put too much trust in friends

Learn how to use enemies.

Be wary of friends, they will betray you more quickly for they are easier aroused to envy, they also become spoiled. Hire a former enemy and they will be more loyal than a friend for they have more to prove. You have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them. Sometimes friends forget the favours they receive and imagine they have earned their success by their own merits. Friendship and love blind every person to their interests. Nobody believes a friend can betray them but they do. A friend expects more and more favours and exceeds with jealousy. Former enemies expect nothing. It is natural to wanna employ your friends when you find yourself in times of need. The world is a harsh place and your friends soften the harshness, besides you know them, why depend on a stranger? When you have a friend at hand. The problem is you often don’t know your friends as well as you imagine. Friends often agree on things in order to avoid an argument, they cover up their unpleasant qualities to try not to offend each other. They laugh extra hard at each other’s jokes. Since honesty rarely strengthens friendship, you may never know how a friend truly feels. Friends will compliment everything about you, maybe they mean it, often they don’t. When you hire a friend you often start to see the qualities they have hidden. Strangely enough your acts of kindness is what unbalances everything. People want to feel they deserve their good fortune. The receipt of a favour can become oppressive. It means you have been chosen because you are a friend, not because you are deserving. There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly. A little more hostility flashes of resentment and envy here and there and before you know it your friendship fades. The more favours and gifts you give to revive the friendship the less gratitude you receive. Ingratitude has demonstrated it’s powers for centuries. If you never expect gratitude from a friend you will be pleasantly surprised when they do prove grateful. Hiring friends will inevitably limit your power. Your friend is rarely the one most able to help you. All working situations require a distance between people. You try to work, not make friends. The key to power is having the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests. In all situations keep friends for friendship. Work with the skilled and competent. Your enemies are an untapped gold mine you must learn to exploit. A person who has something to prove will move mountains for you. Former hatred creates opportunity for emotional reconciliation. Whenever you can, bury the hatchet with an enemy. Make a point of putting them in your service. You destroy an enemy when you make a friend out of them. Without enemies around us we grow lazy. An enemy at our heals sharpens our wits keeping us focused and alert. Without a worthy opponent, a person or group cannot grow stronger. In the long run you will emerge victorious. Never pick a fight with someone you are not sure you can defeat. If you have no enemies, set up a convenient target like turning a friend into an enemy. Use your enemies to define your cause more clearly to the public, even framing it as a struggle of good against evil. Never let the presence of your enemies upset or distress you. Always pay attention to envy and ingratitude. The closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies. People are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit cause gratitude is a burden and revenge is a pleasure.

Law #1 Never Outshine the Master

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior.

In your desire to please and impress them do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite, you may inspire fear and insecurity.

Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

They do not care about science or empirical truth or the latest invention, they care about their name and their glory.

Scientists great intellectual powers can make the masters feel insecure, a producer of great work wants to feel he is more than just a provider of financing, he wants to appear creative and powerful, and more important than the work produced in his name.

Instead of insecurity you must give him glory.

Everyone has insecurities when you show yourself in the world and display your talents you naturally stir up all kinds of resentment, envy and other manifestations of insecurity, this is to be expected, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others, those above you however you must take a different approach.

It is a deadly but common misconception to believe that displaying and flaunting your gifts and talents that you win the masters affection.

He may fain appreciation but at the first opportunity replace you with someone less intelligent, less attractive, less threatening and find any excuse to rid himself of your presence. You cannot invertintly outshine a master simply by being yourself, there are masters who are more insecure than others.. monstrously insecure and you may naturally outshine them by your charm and grace.

If you cannot help being charming and superior you must learn to avoid such monsters of vanity. Either that or find a way to mute your good qualities when in the company of a master who is insecure. Just because a master loves you doesn’t mean you can do anything you want. Never take your position for granted and never let any favours you receive go to your head. Flatter and puff up your master. Overt flattery can be effective but it has it’s limits, it is too direct and obvious. Discreet flattery is much more powerful. If you are more intelligent than your master than seem the opposite, make him appear more intelligent than you, act naive, make it seem like you need his expertise. Commit harmless mistakes that will not hurt you in the long run but will give you the chance to ask for his help, masters adore such requests. A master who cannot bestow upon you the gifts of his experience will direct ranker and ill will at you instead. If your ideas are more creative than your masters describe them to him in as public of a manner as possible make it seem that your advice is merely an echo of his advice, tone down your humour if necessary to avoid making him seen cold in comparison. Find ways to make him the dispenser of amusement and good cheer. If you are naturally more sociable and generous than your master be careful not to be the cloud that blocks his radius from others. He must appear the sun around which everyone revolves radiating power and brilliance. The centre of attention. It is not a weakness to disguise your strength if in the end it leads to power. By letting others outshine you, you remain in control instead of being a victim of their insecurity. This will all come handy when you decide to rise above your inferior status. You cannot worry about upsetting every person you come across but you must be selectively cruel if your superior is a falling star there is nothing to fear from outshining him. Do not be merciful since your master had no such scruples at his cold blooded climb to the top. Gage his strength. If he is weak discreetly hasten his downfall. Out do, out charm, out smart at key moments. If he is very weak and ready to fall let nature take it’s course. Do not risk outshining a feeble superior it may seem cruel or spiteful. If your master is firm in his position yet you know yourself to be more capable, bide your time and be patient, your master will fall one day, and you will outlive and outshine him.