Quotes About Influence

The ability to form friendships, to make people believe in you and trust you is one of the few absolutely fundamental qualities of success. Selling, buying, negotiating are so much smoother and easier when the parties enjoy each other's confidence. The young man who can make friends quickly will find that he will glide, instead of stumble, through life.

No matter how much a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women.

Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.