Law 1: Never Outshine The Master Law 2: Never put too Much Trust in Friends Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions Law 4: Always Say Less than Necessary Law 5: So Much Depends on Reputation Law 6: Court Attention at all Cost Law 7: Get Others to Do the Work for You Law 8: Make Other People Come To You Use Bait Law 9: Win Through Your Actions - Not Argument Law 10: Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky Law 11: Learn To Keep People Dependent on You Law 12: Use Selective Honesty to Disarm Your Victim Law 13: Asking for Help Appeal to People's Self Interest Law 14: Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally Law 16: Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor | Law 17: Cultivate an air of Unpredictability Law 18: Isolation is Dangerous Law 19: Do Not Offend the Wrong Person Law 20: Do Not Commit to Anyone Law 21: Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker Law 22: Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power Law 23: Concentrate Your Forces Law 24: Play the Perfect Courtier Law 25: Recreate Yourself Law 26: Keep Your Hands Clean Law 27: Create a Cult: Play on People’s Need to Believe Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness Law 29: Plan all the way to the End Law 30: Make Your Accomplishments Seem Effortless Law 31: Get others to Play with the Cards you Deal Law 32: Play to People’s Fantasies | Law 33: Discover Each Man’s Thumbscrew Law 34: Be Royal in Your Own Fashion – Act Like a King. Law 35: Master the Art of Timing Law 36: Disdain things you cannot have Law 37: Create Compelling Spectacles Law 38: Think as you like, but behave like others Law 39: Stir Up Waters to Catch Fish Law 40: Despise the Free Lunch Law 41: Avoid Stepping into a Great Man’s Shoes Law 42: Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep Will Scatter Law 43: Work on the Heart and Mind of Others Law 44: Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect Law 45: Preach Change But Never Reform Quickly. Law 46 Never Appear Too Perfect Law 47: In Victory Learn When To Stop Law 48: Assume Formlessness |