Quotes About Influence

You'd insist on your right to take control of your own emotional life, based on your experiences and your beliefs. But, when it comes to their financial lives, millions of people let Mr. Market tell them how to feel and what to do—despite the obvious fact that, from time to time, he can get nuttier than a fruitcake.

Walter Lippmann spoke of men who plant trees that other men will sit under. Ben Graham was such a man.

Some talked,some wrote, and some fought to promote and establish it, but you, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all

That was one thing he'd learned the past two weeks: how much he was affected by the mail, how much the mail intruded on all aspects of his life.

Start your killers young, before their consciences are grown. Start them young and they will be lethal.

She is a woman, and what women want, they get, and if the world and all it holds must be broken in the getting, then so be it.

An army, I learned in time, needs a head. It needs one man to lead it, but give an army two leaders and you halve its strength.

Someone wise, I forget who, said we must leave our children to fate.

Obadiah Hakeswill had never been concerned by such enmity. Power did not lie in being liked, but in being feared.

The art of war," I told him, "is to make the enemy do your bidding.

Merlino mi fissò. - Credi che tu, Derfel, o Artù possiate essere tanto forti da resistere a Nimue? Lei è una donna. Le donne ottengono sempre ciò che vogliono, e se per ottenerlo devono rovinare il mondo e tutto ciò che il mondo contiene, così sia.

My son smiled. "You taught me well, Father." "What did I teach you?" "That a spear-point in a prisoner's liver is a very persuasive thing.

The only purpose a Council serves is to make you all feel important.

Assim que você escreve alguma coisa ela se torna fixa. Vira dogma. As pessoas passam a discutir a respeito, ficam autoritárias, referem-se aos textos, produzem manuscritos, discutem mais e logo estão matando umas às outras. Se você nunca escreve nada, ninguém sabe exatamente o que disse, de modo que sempre pode mudar.

Reputation! It is the one thing that outlives us. Men die, women die, all die, but reputation lives on like the echo of a song, and men crave reputation, as they crave the heavy arm rings that mark a warrior's victories.

treaties are best negotiated from a position of strength.

If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead.

If you're powerless, lord, then why be ashamed of what the strong inflict on you? It's for them to be ashamed.

Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring givers, the gold givers.

If a man is not party to a fight then he cannot be party to the settlement afterward.

It's hard to force obedience without encouraging resentment.

Children are easily swayed by religion, which is why it is a good thing that most eventually grow into sense.

Did I know all that at eleven? Some, I think. It lay in my heart, unformed, unspoken, but hard as a stone. It would be covered over in time, half forgotten and often contradicted, but it was always there. Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, "Wyrd bi ful aræd.

we cannot decree what we would wish. Making an oath is like steering a course, but if the winds and tides of fate are too strong, then the steering oar losses its power.