1. Lessons from Frank Underwood

2. Even Achilles was only as strong as his heel.

3. Shake with your right hand, but hold a rock in your left.

4. To improve is to change. To perfect is to change often.

5. If you don’t like how the table is set, turn over the table.

6. Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.

7. The nature of promises, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances.

8. There is but one rule: Hunt or be hunted.

9. There is no solace above or below. Only us - small, solitary, striving, battling one another.

10. Generosity is its own form of power.

11. One thing you can always count on: the inevitability of battle.

12. Run the marathon, not the sprint.