1. Never out shine the master.
2. Never put too much trust in friends-learn how to use your enemies.
3. Conceal your intentions.
4. Always say less than necessary.
5. So much depends on your reputation-guard it with your life.
6. Court attention at all costs.
7. Get others to do the work for you-always take the credit.
8. Make people come to you-use bait if necessary.
9. Win through your actions-never through arguments.
10. Infection-avoid the unhappy and unlucky.
11. Learn to keep people dependant on you.
12. Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim.
13. When asking for help, appeal to peoples self interests, never to their mercy or gratitude.
14. Pose as a friend, work as a spy.
15. Crush your enemy totally.
16. Use absence to increase respect and honor.
17. Keep others in suspended terror-cultivate an air of unpredictability.
18. Don’t build fortresses to protect yourself-Isolation is dangerous.
19. Know who you’re dealing with-never offend the wrong person.
20. Do not commit to anyone.
21. Play a sucker to catch a sucker-seem dumber than your mark.
22. Use the surrender tactic-transform weakness into power.
23. Concentrate your forces.
24. Play the perfect courtier.
25. Re-create yourself.
26. Keep your hands clean.
27. Play on peoples needs to believe to create a cultlike following.
28. Enter action with boldness.
29. Play all the way to the end.
30. Make your accomplishments seem effortless.
31. Control the options-get others play with the cards you deal.
32. Play to peoples fantasies.
33. Discover each mans thumbscrew.
34. Be royal in your own fashion-act like a king to be treated as one.
35. Master the art of timing.
36. Disdain things you cannot have-Ignoring them is the best revenge.
37. Create compelling spectacles.
38. Think as you like but behave like others.
39. Stir up waters to catch fish.
40. Despise the free lunch.
41. Avoid stepping into a great mans shoes.
42. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
43. Work on the hearts and minds of others.
44. Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect..
45. Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once.
46. Never appear too perfect.
47. Do not go past the mark you aimed for-In victory, learn when to stop.
48. Assume formlessness.