Quotes About Influence

they're fucking up minds they do not own.

I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

Kids have minds of their own. They want to exert their independence and do their own thinking. They blow off the things that are forced onto them and embrace the things they want to believe. If we want to pass our values down to them, we must present those values in a way our kids can accept: in our actions and words. Kids' values come from what they see and hear. They don't accept what we try to drive into their heads through lecturing.

No wonder Nolan whines like a pro: He has a good teacher. The fact is, parents who spend a lot of time pleading with their children develop kids who are experts at pleading

Modeling is the secret to instilling a sense of responsibility about personal belongings.

Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.

Serving others prepares you to lead others.

You know what will bring family and social issues front and center? If 2012 America sees middle-schoolers reenacting Lady Gaga videos.

Mind you, you have to have women around you in order to beat them—at the very least, they need to be within arm's reach.

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Leaders who want to create adaptive, self-organizing teams steer rather than control—they influence, nudge, facilitate, teach, recommend, assist, urge, counsel, and, yes, direct in some instances.

At any organizational level people are leaders not because of what they do, but because of who they are.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

nothing is original. steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination

Aspire to be the leader your team wants and the brand deserves.

Whatever your level of leadership, use your influence to move the company from strategy-based to culture-focused.

Surround yourself with the right people and you'll have the right culture.