Quotes About Influence

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You'll know that you're likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

Byron Wien, for decades one of the most influential voices on Wall Street, taught Israel how to understand macroeconomic questions like the difference between gross national product and gross domestic product. The government had switched the leading economic indicator from GNP to GDP, Wien explained to Israel, as a way to make it seem that the economy was growing faster—official sleight of hand understood by very few.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

We're the sort of people who take our own world with us wherever we go

As the Talmud says, Customs are more powerful than laws.

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

Hey, you know why God invented alcohol? So the Irish wouldn't take over the world.

He opened us—who was a key,who was a man.

And the people believe, because Julian lets them believe... he does not force, suggest, tease, prod -- he lets them believe, he draws margins over which he knows their minds can jump, he unscrews hinges on all the doors.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Istenkém – mondta Bogus?awski –, nagyhatalom lettünk a mellébeszélésben.

További szerencse, bár természetes adottság, hogy ellenzékünknek nincs programja, célja mindössze annyi, mint mindig minden ellenzéknek: benyomni néhány emberét a kormányba.

Gyáva az a korszak, amely a maga egyidej? képi m?vészetét nem teremti meg, és szerencsétlenek azok a m?vészek, akik ilyen, a nemzeti emlékezetben semmiféle nyomot sem hagyó korszakban élnek.

Some people believe that it was while studying the niceties of British and American spelling that the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch painted his masterpiece, 'The Scream'.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

populismo no está sólo en los políticos y en los gobiernos. Está en la sociedad.

El proceso total puede describirse en un triste párrafo: con el dinero de la segunda fiesta petrolera los presidentes de la democracia aceitaron al Congreso federal, el cual aceitó a los gobernadores y a los municipios, los gobernadores aceitaron a sus congresos locales, que les aprobaron todos sus gastos. Hubo dinero de sobra para hacer política y para crear la red horizontal de corrupción cuya diaria evidencia soliviantó hasta el hartazgo a la República.

Partidos y elecciones han sido ventanillas preferentes de asignación y captura de recursos públicos, pues en el México democrático sólo ellas dan acceso al poder y al dinero público suelto que este trae consigo.

Ah, la necesidad de copiar, de ser lo que admiraba, de apropiármelo.

El control llega a ser tan efectivo que Servando Gómez, La Tuta, puede hacer una asamblea de presidentes municipales para no tener que hablar uno por uno con ellos. Les dice que todos deben pagar "diezmo", es decir, un porcentaje fijo de la nómina municipal y otro tanto del destinado a obras públicas.