Quotes About Influence

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

The good man makes others good.