The 48 Laws of Power has been reported to be much requested in American prison libraries, and has been studied as a first-year text in some US colleges. Fast Company called the book a "mega cult classic", and The Los Angeles Times noted that The 48 Laws of Power turned Greene into a "cult hero with the hip-hop set, Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike". The 48 Laws of Power has sold over 1.2 million copies in the United States and has been translated into 24 languages. He would note this as the turning point of his life. Greene wrote the treatment, which later became The 48 Laws of Power. However, at the time Greene was rereading his favorite biography about Julius Caesar and took inspiration from Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon River and fight Pompey, thus inciting the Great Roman Civil War. Īlthough Greene was unhappy in his job, he was comfortable and saw the time needed to write a proper book proposal as too risky. Greene pitched a book about power to Elffers and six months later, Elffers requested that Greene write a treatment. In 1995, Greene worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers. So it is with him who opens his mouth to tell a secret he becomes the victim of an indiscreet listener.Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in The 48 Laws of Power while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history. When the crab sees it thus, he will insert a stone or straw inside the shell, thus preventing the oyster from closing it again whereupon the crab devours him. “When the moon is full, the oyster opens up its shell. So it is with him who opens his mouth to tell a secret he becomes the victim of an indiscreet listener.”
The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.” Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. “When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Then you can be the boss with the hot sauce who gets it all like Monty Hall. They’ll reach out and touch you like AT&T and bring good things to life like GE. And unless you’ve seen Ray Charles leading Stevie Wonder somewhere, you need Ken’s guidelines to do it. If you want the money, power, and respect you dream of, you can’t just “pimp your ride,” you need to pimp your whole life. To be the one with the upper hand, you’ve got to have good game, and good game starts with knowing the rules. Ken’s lessons will serve any person in any interaction: Whether at work, in relationships, or among friends, somebody’s got to be on top. In Pimpology, star of the documentaries Pimps Up, Ho’s Down and American Pimp and Annual Players Ball Mack of the Year winner Ken Ivy pulls a square’s coat on the unwritten rules that took him from the ghetto streets to the executive suites. His secret is to follow the “unwritten rules of the game” - a set of regulations handed down orally from older, wiser macks - which give him superhuman powers of charm, psychological manipulation, and persuasion. We are fascinated by the question of how a guy from the ghetto with no startup capital and no credit - nothing but the words out of his mouth - comes not only to have a stable of sexy women who consider him “their man,” but to drive a Rolls, sport diamonds, and wear custom suits and alligator shoes from Italy. The pimp has reached nearly mythical status. The names change, but the game remains the same.
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