Quotes About Influence

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

In the Chinese version of exceptionalism, China did not export its ideas but let others come to seek them.

The ability to enable people to gather in a square differs from building new institutions of state.

Em período de convulsões generalizadas, um país onde seja preservada a autoridade doméstica fica em boa posição para explorar o caos dos Estados vizinhos em benefício de objetivos internacionais mais elevados.

ofrecerles elevados edificios, graneros y esclavos para enviciar sus barrigas […] y, para los que iban a rendirse, el emperador [debería] favorecerlos haciéndoles los honores con una recepción imperial en la que el propio emperador les sirviera vino y comida para enviciar su mente. Estos son los que podrían denominarse los cinco cebos.27

la dependencia de la coerción es síntoma de un liderazgo inadecuado

To understand a man,' Napoleon is said to have observed, 'look at the world when he was twenty.' Thatcher had turned twenty in 1945.

Rakousko, kdysi považované za jednu z nejsilnÄ›jÅ¡ích a nejlépe Ã…â"¢ízených zemí v EvropÄ›, se stalo zranitelným vlivem své polohy uprostÃ…â"¢ed Evropy: kdykoli se kontinent zatÃ…â"¢ásl, dolehla sem odezva. Mnohojazy?ný ráz Ã…â"¢íÅ¡e ji též ?inil snadným ter?em sílící vlny nacionalismu, síly, která byla jeÅ¡tÄ› o generaci dÃ…â"¢íve v podstatÄ› neznámá.

Ã…Ëœe?eno slovy Rooseveltova oblíbeného poÃ…â"¢ekadla, Amerika bude "mluvit tiÅ¡e a držet silnou h?l".

No leader among Russia's immediate neighbors shares America's faith in Russian conversion as the key to his country's security.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any nobility of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

Anxiety might be contagious, but confidence is also contagious

being a manager' means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others

A good part of the work of managing involves doing what specialists do, but in particular ways that make use of the manager's special contacts, status, and information.

Isn't it strange how some people strive to drag everything into politics! A political reason is assigned to everything, and "everything is politics.

Knowledge is power, and power is the possession of influence over the minds and actions of others.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Christ has redeemed the cultural agents, thus transforming culture also.