Quotes About Influence

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.

The game will fade one day. I realize that success is one thing; impact is another. I live to impact people.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

My definition of success is control.

I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

Your success will have everything to do with how you perceive yourself, because how you perceive yourself is how others will perceive you, too.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.

The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.