Quotes About Influence

You know what they say about assassinations, Don Orsati. The important thing is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.

And we both know the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet. - Graham Seymour

He was afraid that if communism collapsed, the Soviet Union would no longer serve as a beacon for those in the West who believed capitalism to be unjust." "The useful idiots.

You would have a better chance of slowing the rise of the seas than bringing democracy to Russia.

it's that everyone has a price.

The truly powerful man, said Shamron never had to ask for a favor.

A nuclear bomb can only be dropped once. But money can be wielded every day with no fallout and no threat of mutually assured destruction.

majoritarianism.

lo que importa no es quien dispara, sino quien paga la bala.

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Daniel Silva

In Russia you cannot succeed or become wealthy unless someone in a position of power or influence places his hand on your shoulder. - Oksana Akimova

The cruelty of the desert had influenced the faith.

the word assassin is derived from the Arabic hashashin

The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.

As Jack Welch, the famous former CEO of General Electric, once said, "Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

by knowing someone's needs and doing them a favor, you own them. You will be able to get them to do a lot more for you, further down the line, when you need them to.

The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

Your legacy is the fragrance of your life that remains when you yourself are not present.

You are your stories. You are the product of all the stories you have heard and lived—and of many that you have never heard. They have shaped how you see yourself, the world, and your place in it.

We are all wedded to our stories. It doesn't mean we are each hermetically sealed in our own little worlds, impervious to the influence of others. It does mean the only way to avoid such isolation is to listen, compassionately, to the stories of others.

There are those rare people who function like human magnets, who are individually so attractive – or repellent, depending on the situation – that a considerable amount more seems to happen to them, and likewise, their presence in a certain place makes more seem to happen around them. They're magical people. They have special power.

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.