Quotes About Influence

The man who conquered Ireland could be a match for the man who did not conquer Egypt.

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

Every free-trade agreement we have signed in recent years has been designed to make cities vulnerable in precisely this way. If you're a medium-sized city like Wichita, hosting some giant multinational's plant is less of an achievement today than it is a gun pointed at your head, a constant reminder that some executive has the power to turn your town into an instant Flint

In the years before then, he recalls, a very different breed filled the party's precinct positions; the sort of folks who "would donate a thousand-dollar check to the Republican Party, and do not a darn thing.

backlash leaders systematically downplay the politics of economics. The movement's basic premise is that culture outweighs economics

No, it is intellectuals who call the shots, people with graduate degrees and careers in government, academia, law, and the professions.

Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

the people at the top know what they have to do to stay there, and in a pinch they can easily overlook the sweaty piety of the new Republican masses, the social conservatives who raise their voices in praise of Jesus but cast their votes for Caesar.

If you want to motivate people, then it's more important to think about what they want, rather than what you want.

What children hear at home soon flies abroad

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd,Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.

There are mysteries in science, and mysteries in art, but the greatest mystery has always been another person's deepest motivation.

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power.

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

It's easier to accumulate wealth if you don't live in a high-status neighborhood.

Victor wants his children to become physicians, lawyers, accountants, executives, and so on. But in so encouraging them, Victor essentially discourages his children from becoming entrepreneurs. He unknowingly encourages them to postpone their entry into the labor market. And, of course, he encourages them to reject his lifestyle of thrift and a self-imposed environment of scarcity.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.