* Law #1: Never Outshine the Master
* Law #2: Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies
* Law #3: Conceal your Intentions
* Law #4: Always Say Less than Necessary
* Law #5: So Much Depends on Reputation - Guard it with your Life
* Law #6: Court Attention at all Cost
* Law #7: Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit
* Law #8: Make other People come to you - use Bait if Necessary
* Law #9: Win through your Actions, Never through Argument
* Law #10: Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky
* Law #11: Learn to Keep People Dependent on You
* Law #12: Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim
* Law #13: When Asking for Help, Appeal to People’s Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy or Gratitude
* 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: Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
* Law #18: Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself - Isolation is Dangerous
* Law #19: Know Who You’re Dealing with - Do Not Offend the Wrong Person
* Law #20: Do Not Commit to Anyone
* Law #21: Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker - Seem Dumber than your Mark
* Law #22: Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power
* Law #23: Concentrate Your Forces
* Law #24: Play the Perfect Courtier
* Law #25: Re-Create Yourself
* Law #26: Keep Your Hands Clean
* Law #27: Play on People’s Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following
* Law #28: Enter Action with Boldness
* Law #29: Plan All the Way to the End
* Law #30: Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
* Law #31: Control the Options: 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 to be treated like one
* Law #35: Master the Art of Timing
* Law #36: Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge
* 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 Hearts and Minds of Others
* Law #44: Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
* Law #45: Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once
* Law #46: Never appear Perfect
* Law #47: Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop
* Law #48: Assume Formlessness (read less)