Quotes About Influence

For Brian McNaughton seems to have mastered one of the most difficult of literary arts: to draw upon the classics

You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you put in.

Your behavior will guide the behavior of the other members of your team or the people in your organization.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Facts tell but emotions sell, and most sales happen through emotion.

You become what you hang around most.

If there is an effect in your life that you want more of, you merely need to trace it back to the causes and repeat the causes. If there is an effect in your life that you do not enjoy, you need to trace it back to the causes and get rid of them.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

People will pay a dollar for a program with information, but they'll pay $ 10 for a program with information plus a story.

Parents are responsible for 40 to 50 percent of a child's habits. Children are greatly influenced, not just by their parents' efforts at persuasion, but also by their behavior.

Madam it's not how long we live, but what we have created during that life. What have we left to the world? Is it a little more beautiful, a little more thoughtful, and a little kinder because of us? It is what will stay on regardless of whether you die at 27 or 80.

There is also a direct relationship between the amount of control you feel you have and how positive you feel. The more you feel that you have a high "sense of control" in the important areas of your life, the more positive and happy you are in everything you do.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. —PLATO

Maslow, McGregor, Herzberg, Drucker y

Influencia, Robert Cialdini

Leadership is the ability to elicit extraordinary performance from ordinary people.

El individuo que tiene una alta autoestima es el que tiene más facilidad para hacer amigos dondequiera que vaya. Dado que se quiere a sí mismo, se interesa natural y espontáneamente por los demás. Cuando las personas sienten que alguien las quiere genuinamente, están más abiertas a escuchar a esa persona y a comprar lo que él o ella vende.

People eat more when you give them a bigger container. Period.

As long as we believe it is food that causes us to overeat, we are lost. Television, friends, and weather seem pretty unrelated to what we eat. That's why they have such a powerful effect on us.

Moods, however, do seem to influence what we choose to eat. People in happy moods tended to prefer healthier foods, such as pizza or steak. People in sad moods were much more likely to reach for ice cream, cookies, or a bag of potato chips.2

Hearing can't dares a person to find a workaround. It's a basic psychological theory called reactance - telling someone no just makes them want it more.

Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

You need to remember the best legacy you can give your kids is an example of a life well lived. They may listen to what you say, but they will do what you do. If you tell them to take care of yourself but you don't do it yourself, what kind of message are you sending?