Quotes About Influence

But at the time, she was too scared to do anything. His reach into the cops and courts, he told her, was beyond anything she could imagine.

He told her he "controlled every court in Indiana." For $30, he could get someone to sign an affidavit to anything he dictated, he boasted. For $50, he could get a man killed.

the most powerful Klan in history, the only realm that had complete political control of a state.

Oh, for the pre-Twitter days, when it took something more than a word fart by a president who never opens a book to turn the world upside down.

Fully half the town of 30,000 belonged to the Klan, including mayor, prosecutor, police force, and school board.

Kokomo has seen with its own eyes the class of people who comprise the Klan," the Fiery Cross wrote in its report of the biggest day in the history of the Ku Klux Klan. "It saw staunch American farmers with their wives; merchants of repute; bankers of integrity; honest and hard-working mechanics, and ministers and devout church members.

All it took were a few good Hoosiers to put an end to Klan "influence" in Indiana, as it was phrased.

What many Americans heard about Jews they got from Henry Ford, operating out of a Michigan base less than three hundred miles from Indianapolis. His newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, was a fire hose of anti-Semitism and reached a peak circulation of nearly one million readers.

They pored over a list of Klan-backed candidates for high office next year—governors in the West, the South, and the Midwest, senators from ten more states, and the presidential ticket. About seventy members of Congress were faithful to the hooded order

By the mid-1920s, there were more Klansmen, per capita, in Oregon than any state but Indiana.

In the balloons of grandeur that kept Stephenson aloft, the presidency was just a few puffs of helium away. "Boys, I'm not in this for the money," he told his cronies. "You're going to put me in the White House.

And here was yet another plum: Ed Jackson, the Republican whose name had first appeared on membership rolls of the Klan in 1923, had been swept into the governor's office. He owed it all to D. C. Stephenson.

Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power.

D. C. Stephenson was telling the state's top elected officials what to do. And they followed the Klansman's every order.

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn't at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through

One of the most universal causes of self-doubt and depression: trying to impress people you don't like. Stressing to impress is fine, but do it for the right people - those you want to emulate.

This is the best thing you're ever going to learn in SEAL training.' We were excited to learn what it was, and he told us that when you're a leader, people are going to mimic your behavior, at a minimum. . . . It's a guarantee. So here's the key piece of advice, this is all he said: 'Calm is contagious.

Kids don't do what you say. They do what they see. How you live your life is their example.

Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence.

Ben Franklin's excellent advice: "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito."—Betty Reese

80% of the consequences flow from 20% of the causes