Quotes About Influence

He has strong influence with his friends;

For many centuries, nobles and magnates supported artists, musicians and authors so that their creative works would be dedicated to them.

I soon found that you can catch health, happiness, and success from others just as easily as you can catch worries, bitterness, and failure.

Remember: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.

Se ha de enseñar a los hombres como si no se les enseñara. Y proponerles cosas ignoradas como si fueran olvidadas.

they sought small, meaningful ways to leave people a little better.

FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN  HANDLING PEOPLE PRINCIPLE 1 Don't criticize, condemn or complain. PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.

And 2,200 years before Christ was born, King Akhtoi of Egypt gave his son some shrewd advice—advice that is sorely needed today. "Be diplomatic," counseled the King. "It will help you gain your point.

If Al Capone, Two Gun Crowley, Dutch Schultz, and the desperate men and women behind prison walls don't blame themselves for anything - what about the people with whom you and I come in contact?

When the late Lord Northcliffe found a newspaper using a picture of him which he didn't want published, he wrote the editor a letter. But did he say, 'Please do not publish that picture of me any more; I don't like it'? No, he appealed to a nobler motive. He appealed to the respect and love that all of us have for motherhood. He wrote, 'Please do not publish that picture of me any more. My mother doesn't like it.

Always make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

review how he refers to himself on his website or blog.

Scolding parents and domineering bosses and husbands and nagging wives ought to realize that people don't want to change their minds. They can't be forced or driven to agree with you or me. But they may possibly be led to, if we are gentle and friendly, ever so gentle and ever so friendly.

How he handles names plays a leading role in this process.

without seeming false in your praise.

PRINCIPLE 9 Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

Haga que la otra persona se sienta importante, y hágalo sinceramente.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

It becomes easier for people to relate to us.

the Roman Empire, Marcus Aurelius, summed it up in eight words—eight words that can determine your destiny: "Our life is what our thoughts make it.

To change somebody's behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person's outstanding characteristics.

Save someone's face once and your influence with him rises. Save his face every time you can, and there is practically nothing he won't do for you.

Look what happened to John Stuart Mill when he openly and fully acknowledged the intellectual contribution made by Harriet Taylor to his work! At first he was not taken seriously, but when he continued to insist that Harriet Taylor's intellectual stature was comparable to his own, he was perceived as besotted, as swayed by the wiles of an unscrupulous woman, and his declaration was dismissed.