Robert Greene Quotes

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.

There's always someone who wants to make you look bad.

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Too often in politics the stiletto is slipped between your shoulder blades, while its wielder continues to smile sweetly.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Like any other, this is an industry where complexes, ego and politics abound.

Tony Hadley is a big Conservative. He is desperate to become a Lord. He's jealous of me.

I couldn't stand the politics in opera.

The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America.

You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan well, focus, work hard, and be very determined to achieve your goals.

A lot of things are going to happen that you can't necessarily control all the time, but you can control what you do after it happens. So that's what I try to do, keep my head up, keep moving forward, stay positive and just work hard.

If you work hard, nothing is impossible.

You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name - someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.

I've not been a decisively re-elected city councilor and top vote-getter three times because I haven't done the work and because I don't work hard.

Politics is nothing but opportunism.

If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.

I'm focused on leaks that hurt the institution of the president and the president himself. I understand we have to leak things to reporters to help shape policy or try to balloon things or do tests on ideas or people for different jobs. I'm talking about nefarious, unnecessary, backstabbing, palace intrigue-like leaks.

Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it.

Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks.

I've never been - and never will be - someone who 'plays the game' with people.

No matter what comes, I will always work hard and do my best.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.