Quotes About Influence

An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it. The public had no confidence in the paper money despite the awesomely coercive decrees that always marked Mongol rule.

The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and Java. Arabic is their sacred language.

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

No one person can change the world, but one and one and one add up.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

People come and go in your life. It is up to you choose how you want to associate with that person. It is up to you to learn and imbibe things from such a person.

I'm a big Leonardo DiCaprio fan. And if I could have a career like his... he's amazing. And not only his career, his public persona and how he carries himself.

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

Every State which breaks the equilibrium in its own favor only causes the other States to combine against it, and thereby diminishes its influence and power.

Read Euler , read Euler , he is the master of us all.

Information is power. --Humfrey

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

We have to defend views we don't share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don't understand and vulgarize them for the gallery. We can't have ideas of our own, we have to have those of the editor; and even the editor doesn't have the right to think with his own head, because when he's sent for by the board of directors he has to stifle his own views, if he has any, and support those of the shareholders.

Be a model and don't wait to be modeled

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

In the early days of his power, he is full of smiles, and he salutes everyone whom he meets.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.