Power

Question 1

What should you never do to the Master?

Answer 1

Outshine him.

Question 2

What should you not do too much to your friends?

Answer 2

Trusting them

Question 3

What should you do with your intentions?

Answer 3

Conceal them.

Question 4

What should you always say?

Answer 4

Less than necessary.

Question 5

What should you do with your reputation?

Answer 5

Guard it with your life.

Question 6

What should you get at all cost?

Answer 6

Court attention.

Question 7

Who should do the work, and who should get the credit?

Answer 7

Others should do your work, but you should get the credit.

Question 8

Should you go to people, or should they come to you?

Answer 8

They should come to you, and you should even use bait if necessary.

Question 9

What should make you win?

Answer 9

Actions, not arguments.

Question 10

Who should you avoid?

Answer 10

The unlucky and unhappy

Question 11

Should you depend on people or should they depend on you?

Answer 11

They should depend on you.

Question 12

How should you disarm your victim?

Answer 12

With selective honesty and generosity

Question 13

What should you appeal to when asking for help?

Answer 13

Their self-interest.

Question 14

When you pose as a friend, you should work as a?

Answer 14

Spy

Question 15

How should you defeat your enemy?

Answer 15

Totally

Question 16

What air should you cultivate?

Answer 16

Unpredictability

Question 17

How should you protect yourself?

Answer 17

In the crowd, not in a fortress.

Question 18

How do you avoid offending the wrong person?

Answer 18

By knowing who you are dealing with.

Question 19

Who should you commit to?

Answer 19

No one.

Question 20

How do you catch a sucker?

Answer 20

By playing a sucker

Question 21

How do you increase respect and honor?

Answer 21

By using absence

Question 22

What tactic can transform weakness into power?

Answer 22

The surrender tactic

Question 23

What should you do with your forces?

Answer 23

Concentrate them

Question 24

What role should you play?

Answer 24

The perfect courtier

Question 25

What can you do if you don’t like the role assigned to you?

Answer 25

Re-create yourself.

Question 26

Your hands must always be?

Answer 26

Clean

Question 27

On what should you play in order to create a cultlike following?

Answer 27

The people’s need to believe.

Question 28

How should you enter into the action?

Answer 28

With boldness

Question 29

Until where should you plan?

Answer 29

Until the end

Question 30

How should your accomplishments seem?

Answer 30

Effortless

Question 31

What should you control?

Answer 31

The options

Question 32

You should play to people’s ____?

Answer 32

Fantasies

Question 33

What should you discover about each man?

Answer 33

His thumbscrew

Question 34

How can you be treated like a king?

Answer 34

By acting like one.

Question 35

What art should you master?

Answer 35

Timing

Question 36

What should you do to things you cannot have?

Answer 36

Disdain them

Question 37

You should create complelling _____?

Answer 37

Spectacles

Question 38

How should you think, how should you behave?

Answer 38

Think as you like, behave like others

Question 39

How do you catch fish?

Answer 39

By stirring up water

Question 40

What should you do with the free lunch?

Answer 40

Despise it

Question 41

What should you avoid stepping in?

Answer 41

A great man’s shoe

Question 42

How do you make the sheep scatter?

Answer 42

By striking the shepherd

Question 43

Work on the ______ and ____ of others

Answer 43

Hearts and minds

Question 44

How do you disarm and infuriate?

Answer 44

With the mirror effect

Question 45

How much should you reform?

Answer 45

Never too much at once. But you can preach the need for change

Question 46

How should you never appear?

Answer 46

Too perfect.

Question 47

In victory, what should you know?

Answer 47

When to stop.

Question 48

What shape should you assume?

Answer 48

Formlessness