Machiavelli's The Morals Of The Prince

To have success in the modern world you must not only put in the average time but the extreme amount. The person who pushes themself to the fullest and never gives up no matter the downfalls are the ones who succeed in life. Confidence is the key to success with confidence you can achieve more than you thought you could. People say confidence pushes you to do your best but others feel confidence sometimes takes over your mind set.
A key to success is never let confidence over power you and lead you to failure. For Example, Steve Jobs was a shareholder and co creator for Apple but as soon as his confidence overpowered him his life fell apart. Jobs started trying to change things with the company without consulting with his partner so the company ,he helped create,
As a prince you have to have confidence or else the people might walk all over you. Machiavelli story “The Morals of the Prince”, talks about how a prince needs to be feared in order to have full power over his kingdom. With fear comes confidence because if you do not believe in yourself and show weakness people will not take you serious and try to over power you. Machiavelli states, “ a shrewd prince will lay his foundation on what is under his own control, not on what is controlled by others….”. I believe this quote states the issue of a prince being to nice and being taken over. If the ruler lets everyone have a say so in his rule then no one will come to an agreement and it will be unorganized. In the world if you’re to nice people will take advantage of you and you may never realize it until it’s too late. In the story The Morals of a Prince clearly states that most princes or Sergeants who’ve won wars did not have a reputation of being generous. This is true because if you feel bad or have sympathy you will come off as weak and a easy target. If you have confidence people already look at you as strong and it gives you an upper