Quotes About Influence

This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.

I look up to so many powerful women who succeeded before me and I'm here doing my thing to inspire women who will come after me.

The U.S. has always sought to sow intrigue against Iran but has never succeeded in the face of Iran's greatness.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you're at, but the future of who's going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.

I just hope that my success is in some way influencing other outlets to really be much more purposeful in promoting, advancing and recruiting people of color.

The one person who is the reason for all my success is my mom.

The Rock is somebody that every kid in my era grew up watching. Legend. His success is not only in wrestling but what he's done after it has been spectacular.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.

You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Dad's fear, especially when I was 18, was that, in the music industry in the U.K., there wasn't really anybody I would aspire to who was of black origin and who was successful. It was mainly black American musicians in the charts and, at that age, I think you look for someone you can identify with, and there wasn't really anyone.

There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

There's a reason the Panthers have been successful over the years and Cam Newton's a big factor in that equation. He does a great job.