Quotes About Influence

What we say in private we must be willing to say with a heart burning with love and honor before the face of our leaders. If not, we will poison our spirits and it will manifest in the presence of our leaders.

That's the problem with leadership cults. They're red hot on getting shit done, once the big man has spoken, but not so good at weighing up whether that shit should have been done in the first place.

We do as we have been done by.

I've always believed that if women could only collectively harness the power that they have then they'd rule the world.

England is the mother of Parliaments.

they were "very clever in inventing reasons" for a sudden rise or fall in stock prices,

Most nineteenth-century American fortunes were enlarged by, if they were not actually founded on, the practice of insider trading,

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

The second certainty is associated with spirit, as in Pasternak's novel, Dr. Zhivago, when the physician says to a young woman dying of cancer, "Your spirit will live on, you know. Your spirit is you in others, others in you.

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times.

Those children," he said, as he came back, "wanted to see the President of the United States, and I could not disappoint them. They may never have another chance. What a deep impression such things make when we are young!

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

What will he [Satan] do first? Prevent spirits from coming to earth. How will he do this? He'll do all in his power to promote abortion. He'll convince people to have no children. He will raise fears about over population and encourage governments to make laws that limit the number of children couples can have. He'll do whatever he can to keep those spirits form coming!

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ...

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form of gambling.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Those who, rejecting Scripture, imagine that they have some peculiar way of penetrating to God, are to be deemed not so much under the influence of error as madness.

Augustine is so wholly with me, that if I wished to write a confession of my faith, I could do so with all fullness and satisfaction to myself out of his writings.

All who have not been influenced by the principle of self-denial, have followed virtue merely from the love of praise.