This Law may sound like a harsh approach to take. However, its true message is more about learning from the ventures and missteps of others, to create your own success.
At all costs, however, you do not reveal this strategy to anyone as they would be happy to co-opt it and take their own credit for it. 
Let this story of the great explorer Vasco Balboa serve as a warning…
~ Courtesy of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Balboa had an obsession — the discovery of El Dorado, a legendary city of vast riches.
Early in the sixteenth century, after countless hardships and brushes with death, he found evidence of a great and wealthy empire to the south of Mexico, in present-day Peru. By conquering this empire, the Incan, and seizing its gold, he would make himself the next Cortes.
The problem was that even as he made this discovery, word of it spread among hundreds of other conquistadors. He did not understand that half the game was keeping quiet, and carefully watching those around him.
A few years after he discovered the location of the Incan empire, a soldier in his own army, Francisco Pizarro, helped to get him beheaded for treason. Pizarro went on to take what Balboa had spent so many years trying to find.
This is the essence of the Law: Learn to get others to do the work for you, while you take the credit and you appear to be of godlike strength and power.
[And take a lesson from Law #4…Always say less than necessary as others will take the credit and your El Dorado.]