Quotes About Influence

I would have taken genuine delight in looking helpless while actually pulling the strings that made all the others dance. Any of us would, though. We all have our motives, our ambitions.

As you say, he had a way of drawing admissions from people.

I hate to say it, boss, but anything I learn I pick up from your vibes. Ain't no one else around to teach me manners and like that.

This girl either brings out the worst in me or shuts me down completely. Not true. I did it myself. Still....

that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.

M? interesez de limbaj pentru c? m? r?ne?te sau m? seduce.

Aucun n'est d'un métal si pur qu'il laisse l'autre sans voix.

What is a hero? The one who has the last word.

What relation can I have with a system of power if I am neither its slave nor its accomplice nor its witness?

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee," he once said, "and I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Hamilton's relatively short life robbed him not only of any chance for further accomplishment but of the opportunity to mold his historical image.

In "the general course of things, the popular views and even prejudices will direct the action of the rulers.

Tis with governments as with individuals, first impressions and early habits give a lasting bias to the temper and character.

the works of Locke, Montesquieu, Hobbes, and Hume, as well as those of such reigning legal sages as Sir William Blackstone, Hugo Grotius, and Samuel von Pufendorf. He was especially taken with the jurist Emmerich de Vattel

If Washington was the father of the country and Madison the father of the Constitution, then Alexander Hamilton was surely the father of the American government.

This is the true secret . . . that wherever a regiment is well officered, the men have behaved well—when otherwise, ill—the [misconduct] or cowardly behavior always originating with the officers, who have set the example.

Frederick Douglass paired Grant with Lincoln as the two people who had done most to secure African American advances:

So it may be said, with undoubted truth, that the whiskey drinkers made Mr. Jefferson the President of the United States.

He generally spoke with much animation and energy, and with considerable gesture. His mind was filled with all the learning and precedence required for the occasion, enabling him to make numerous extemporaneous speeches. He seduced the listeners with hope and provoked them with fear, leading one spectator to comment that Hamilton's harangues combine the poignancy of vinegar with the smoothness of oil.

Rockefeller feared that other states might copy this precedent and hold him hostage.

Things seldom happened accidentally to George Washington, but he managed them with such consummate skill that they often seemed to happen accidentally. By 1775 he had a fine sense of power—how to gain it, how to keep it, how to wield it.

Where Pierpont had the fortitude to confront Junius, Jack silently hoped for approval and leaned on his mother for emotional support.

The clandestine payoffs made by Standard Oil were a different matter, and Rockefeller never stinted in making payments to get the job done.

Standard Oil of New York also made large loans to banks, brokerage houses, railroads, and steel companies.