Quotes About Influence

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics...

O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

Yevgeni Krilov knew he was in a room with the richest man in Russia, possibly the world. No one did a ruble's worth of business in Russia without paying a percentage fee to the supreme boss, albeit through a complex network of shell companies and front men.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

An educated people can be easily governed.

We are the rich. We own America. We got it God knows how, but we intend to keep it.

Men destroy countries; Women destroy universes.

And so, seemingly overnight, French political and military influence in South Vietnam withered. On May 20, 1955, French forces withdrew from the Saigon area and assembled in a coastal enclave. From there, their numbers steadily dwindled, until on April 28, 1956, the last French soldier departed Vietnam—signifying the symbolic end, some said, of France's century in the Far East.

Every time we take a step we're surrounded by the ideological birds of prey who feed on our possibilities, fill themselves with concepts of our desires and reenslave us with beautiful combinations of words which seem to depict the world we failed to realize.

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.

Medien zu verstehen, ist eine Unmöglichkeit, weil gerade umgekehrt die jeweils herrschenden Nachrichtentechniken alles Verstehen fernsteuern und seine Illusionen hervorrufen.

Ein Hohlkopf an der Spitze einer Großmacht, Nationalrat, und schon werden wir weggeschwemmt, ein Gastmann, und schon sind unsere Ketten durchbrochen, die Vorposten umgangen.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Power is paradoxical.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -- and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.