Quotes About Influence

Yo no soy responsable de mi libro, alguien me lo injertó y aunque no lo escribiera, viviría.

the power of the people is so much stronger than the people in power.

People cannot inspire others unless and until they are inspired themselves.

As Daniel Pink notes in To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now."4

The first step to inspiring others is to make sure you're inspired yourself.

The biggest lesson was that if you were clear about what you wanted as leaders and then let people give it to you without tying their hands behind their backs, you got it.

When you change the way you see yourself as a speaker, the speaker your audience sees will change." CARMINE GALLO You

alcanzar momentos de asombro, y prestaremos especial atención a aquellos oradores que minuciosa y deliberadamente diseñan y ejecutan instantes deslumbrantes de los que quienes asisten a sus charlas siguen hablando años más tarde.

Moving On Up As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word. 5

7 percent of a person's message is conveyed through words and 93 percent is conveyed nonverbally (38 percent vocal tone; 55 percent body language).

los líderes eficaces poseen la capacidad de actuar e incitar a los demás a hacerlo porque conocen las fuerzas invisibles que nos configuran».[6] La comunicación apasionada, poderosa y estimulante es una de esas fuerzas que nos mueven y nos configuran.

Humor plays a key role in the playbooks of the world's most inspiring public speakers.

A person can have the greatest idea in the world—completely different and novel—but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter. —GREGORY BERNS

Churchill proved that one person can make a difference. One person can save a civilization. But no person has a chance to persuade the greatest number of people if they cannot explain their ideas with short, well-chosen words.

To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now.

Successful organizations and companies share the stage with their best storytellers. Brands are a collection of narratives. Unleash your best stories.

Great speakers use short words to explain new ideas.

Great leaders have an air of confidence," he replied. "Subordinates need to look up to somebody who is still standing strong, like an oak, regardless of events around them.

Great communicators reach your head and touch your heart.

If you don't buy into your story, nobody else will.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.

In eighteenth-century parlance, the president was to be a disinterested leader, removed from the tarnishing effects of ambition, greed, and factional wrangling, a check upon the sectional or class interests of lawmakers in the House and Senate.

I always knew I'd be a sailor. In my cradle, playing with my toes, I knew it. What else could there have been? The sailors had made my blood move before I was born, I now believe. As my mother stood one night upon the shit-smelling Bermondsey shore with me in her belly, the sailors had sung out there across the great river, and their siren song had come to the shell-pink enormity that was my listening ear newly formed in the amniotic fluid. Or so I believe.