Shiv Khera Quotes

I'm very good at manipulation.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

With foxes we must play the fox.

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

there are some people of a timid or very opportunists mind who press on us the necessity of leading people on by little and little, concealing the object they have in view, until people are so far committed to the steps to be taken towards it that they cannot draw back again

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

I work my angles and things like that.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.