The 48 Laws of Power

For those who want power, watch power or wan to arm themselves against the power.

Some play with power and loose it all by fatal mistake. Some go too far or not far enough and yet other make all right move and are able to draw power onto themselves with an almost super human dexterity. Through out the ages, writer and philosophers have asked themselves: what are the lessons to be learn from the successes and failure of our predecessors? Although the various writing on power span a period of more than 3000 years, common threads and themes are repeated, once that hint at an essence of power and suggest properties that regulate its increase and decreases the 48 laws and timeless definitive.