Quotes About Influence

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

The woman is the reflection of her man

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.