The Art of War by Sun Tzu: Smooth-Talking

1. When encountering women: always say the other person has lost weight.
2. When encountering the poor: always say money isn't important, happiness is what matters.
3. When encountering beautiful women: praise their inner qualities, good figure, and elegant temperament.
4. When encountering handsome men: praise their talent, grace, and refined demeanor.
5. When encountering someone with children: praise the children for being well-behaved, smart, and good-looking.
6. When encountering patients: praise their good complexion, they will recover quickly.
7. When encountering entrepreneurs: praise their passion.
8. When encountering junior staff: praise their vision.
9. When encountering the wealthy: praise their insight and taste.

The Art of War: Turning Face
When you sense your interests are being infringed upon, you must turn face immediately.
Turning face on the spot means justified and based on facts; doing so later shows pettiness. Turning face immediately shows others your bottom line and that you are not to be messed with. Turning face months later makes everyone think you are a troublemaker.
Learn to retort. If the other party shamelessly tramples on your dignity, fight back so others won't infringe on you a second time.

The Art of War: Social Conduct
1. Never tear up your face at any time; whenever conflicts arise, never be the one to throw a table. The road of the martial world is long, you'll meet again.
2. Smiling at someone you dislike is a necessary skill to learn in being disgusting.
3. Be perceptive, bold, quick-witted, sweet-tongued, thick-skinned, ruthless, hard-hearted, and deep in strategy. People like this are hard to succeed without.
4. Do not share your financial situation with anyone. If you're rich, you'll attract jealousy; if you're poor, you'll attract contempt. Remember, keep your finances private, or you'll invite trouble.

The Art of War: Human Nature
Self-Improvement
Poor people's genes favor caring for and helping others.
Rich people, on the other hand, do not, when encountering incapable people, they avoid engaging to prevent draining their own abilities.
The core of the wealthy is to filter out irrelevant, incompetent, and worthless people.
Poor people are cautious and generous. Rich people are generous and stingy.

The Art of War: Wisdom
1. The stupidest behavior: showing off.
2. The worst habit: impulsiveness.
3. The greatest foolishness: talking too much.
4. The highest realm: silence.
5. The most wonderful wisdom: humility.
6. The best cultivation: steadiness.
7. The shallowest insight: arrogance.
8. The deepest connotation: humility.