“If you seem too ambitious, you stir up resentment in other people; overt power grabs and sharp rises to the top are dangerous, creating envy, distrust and suspicion often the best solution is to take small bites, swallow little territories, playing upon people’s relatively short attention spans. Stay under the radar and they won't see your moves. And if they do it may already be too late; the territory is yours, a fait accompli. You can always claim you acted out of self defence. Before people realize it you have accumulated an empire.”