Quotes About Influence

What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.

Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.

Connecting is the key to Influence. Influence is the key to Leading. Leading is the key to Success!

A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

You can really Lead Without a Title.

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth — that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man.

he is anxious to know how you have been employed during your long absence from him, how you have been treated by your persecutors, and if they have conducted themselves towards you with all the deference due to your rank. Finally, he is anxious to see if you have been fortunate enough to escape the bad moral influence to which you have been exposed, and which is infinitely more to be dreaded than any physical suffering;

I have to admit,' replied Villefort, looking at his father with astonishment, 'you seem very well informed.' 'Heavens, it's simple enough. You people, who hold power, have only what can be bought for money; we, who are waiting to gain power, have what is given out of devotion.' 'Devotion?' Villefort laughed. 'Yes, devotion. That is the honest way to describe ambition when it has expectations.