Quotes About Influence

The greatest accelerant to a cultural flame is leadership.

A single leader with a great idea can start a cultural revolution.

Bring the thunder. Some situations require extra inspiration and motivation to influence others; during those moments, act with fierce bravado.

Create your inner circle. Identify four to five irreplaceable, intentional mentors in your life and formally develop those relationships; choose people who already have a vested interest in your success.

Leaders have the power to light up or extinguish the cultural flame of a company.

Be the accelerant. You have the power to light up the cultural flame of the company. It's not going to happen because of programs, processes, tools, branding or the product itself; focus on the culture and light it up!

You can be the catalyst that sparks a cultural flame.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

One of the reasons why the old media is dying so rapidly is that it has got so out of touch with what the people are actually interested in and what the people actually think and believe. Social media has filled the vacuum, so there's no further need for the mainstream media.

Leaders are the stewards of organizational energy

Leaders have a disproportionate impact on the energy of others.

Mayer Rothschild believed his oft-repeated quote, "Permit me to control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

Hegelian dialectic, or problem, reaction, solution. This method basically involves fabricating or intensify a problem, offering a draconian solution, then settling for a "compromise" that nevertheless furthers the intended goal.

Rockefellers and other Wall Street capitalists such as Jacob Schiff, Elihu Root, J. P. Morgan, and the Harriman family

President John F. Kennedy, like Lincoln, attempted to curtail the bankers by diminishing the power of the Federal Reserve. In June 1963, he issued $4.2 billion in United States Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the Federal Reserve System and also took steps to shift power away from the wealthy corporate elite. According

Shortly before his death in July 2009, Cronkite was asked if there was a ruling class in America. "I am afraid there is," he replied. "I don't think it serves the democracy well, but that is true, I think there is. The ruling class is the rich who really command our industry, our commerce, our finance. And those people are able to so manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy, I feel.

Until the real rulers of America are identified and confronted, no amount of hand-wringing, letter writing, or demonstrating can have any meaningful effect.

Yet today, religion has waned, especially in highly developed nations. Now the favored method of control is through money.

it's fair to wonder whether pharmaceutical corporations may have manipulated the WHO in an effort to sell swine flu vaccine. These companies had invested millions of dollars researching and developing

We are tampered with, our opinions manufactured for us, all without our permission. What was the purpose of these behavior modifications? It was to bring about forced changes to our way of life, without our agreement and without even being aware of what was taking place.

But when it comes to foreign policy and particularly issues involving the corporations, the banks, or the military, there is no difference between the two parties.

Let us consider historically how human populations have been controlled. Throughout the ages, there have been two predominant methods for controlling humankind—religion and finance.

Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.

But emotionalism (i.e., decision making based on emotions) is bad, can be controlled, and should be avoided. So instead of examining each of the many individual emotions, this chapter will focus on the entity that epitomizes emotionalism: the crowd.