Quotes About Influence

Si quieres ser respetado por los demás, lo mejor es respetarte a ti mismo. Sólo por eso, sólo por el propio respeto que te tengas, inspirarás a los otros a respetarte. FIÓDOR DOSTOIEVSKI

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Ted did part of St. Denis's poetry tours with her.

None of them were even married, and the kind of women they got a chance to know weren't likely to be changed by what a rustler would do to them.

Henry Huntington shaped the system of transportation which, along with other forces, launched the entire region from Santa Monica to Redlands and from San Fernando to Santa Ana, on the road to becoming the great City of Southern California.

We can choose to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be troubled by it; for things themselves have no power of their own to affect our judgments.

The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority. Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

one of the most important things a leader can do is project a clear and distinctive point of view that others can follow. But that clear vision is arrived at, and constantly modified and sharpened, through deep reflection and questioning.

Everything that's ever happened to you or occurred to you in your life informs every decision you make—and also influences what questions you decide to ask. So it can be useful to step back and inquire, Why did I come up with that question?" Burton adds, "Every time you come up with a question, you should be wondering, What are the underlying assumptions of that question? Is there a different question I should be asking?

We arrive at originality because the dendrites have reached out and made contact with the branches of faraway "trees," thereby enabling us to combine thoughts, bits of knowledge, and influences that normally do not mix.

Never ask the barber if you need a haircut.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child's chance of dropping out of high school.5

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

People do grow up, unless stunted by some mass movement or other group sickness.

Tom Petty," Jim Lenahan insists, "is really good at getting people to quit school and join his band. He got Benmont to do it. He got me to do it. He got Mike to do it. He got a lot of people to quit college so they could be in his band.