Quotes About Influence

Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.

It's not respect but fear that motivates a man; that's how empires are built and revolutions begin. It is the secret of great men.

No es el respeto, sino el miedo lo que motiva a un hombre; así se construyen imperios y se ponen en marcha revoluciones. Ése es el secreto de los grandes hombres. Cuando un hombre tiene miedo de que lo aplastes, de que lo destruyas por completo, su respeto siempre vendrá detrás. El temor más elemental siempre es embriagador, abrumador, liberador. Siempre es más intenso que el respeto

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

Yes, the simple truth about the greatest businesspeople I have known is that they have a genuine fascination for the truly astonishing impact little things done exactly right can have on the world.

system is a set of things, actions, ideas, and information that interact with each other, and in so doing, alter other systems.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they'll make of you? Maybe you'll help them to persuade people to buy things they don't need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

My will can control anything that's empty.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

When it comes to controlling humans, there is no better instrument than lies.

You've saved my life all the same- even if I had something to do with it.

Und nichts gibt größere Macht über die Menschen als die Lüge. Denn die Menschen, Söhnchen, leben von Vorstellungen. Und die kann man lenken. Diese Macht ist die Einzige, was zählt.

Letters unchangeable and dead freeze what the living did and said.

Nulla dà maggior potere sugli uomini che la menzogna. Perché gli uomini, figliolo, vivono di idee. E quelle si possono guidare come si vuole.

Und wer die Zeit der Menschen besitzt, der hat unbegrenzte Macht!

Live your life the way you Want Your kids to live theirs.

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

Men of power have not time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for power

Two thousand million people in the world, and the one who has to decide their fate is is the only one who's always hidden from me.

He said there are three kinds of history. The first is what really happened, and that is lost forever. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened, and that is 90 percent of the history in books.

Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

We mentioned it later to some people who'd been at the Pacification briefing, someone from the Times and someone from the AP, and they both agreed that the kid from the Big Red One had said more about the Hearts-and-Minds programme than they'd heard in over an hour of statistics, but their bureaus couldn't use his story, they wanted ambassador Komer's. And they got it and you got it.

A core attribute of the effective leader is the act of inspiring and developing others. Leaders model by their actions.