Joost Elffers Production ; 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 2 3: 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 That 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 Too Perfect ; Law 47 : Do Not Go Past the Mark You Aimed for ; In Victory, Learn When to Stop ; Law 48 : Assume Formlessness ;