Quotes About Influence

I think Yelp is neither good nor bad for the food industry. I find it useless.

I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.

We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.

I'm an avid Instagram user, and I do it myself.

A large user base helps shield us from things we can't control. You can spend years catering to a major corporation, for example, only to see your contact there move on.

Online, there is an irresistible social currency to being a user who has thousands of followers, who starts memes, who comes up with an idea that is turned into a movie. But I wonder how comfortable we should be with this arrangement.

Although TikTok is a Chinese app, it had a humungous Indian user base.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.

Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.

Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did.

As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be.

Companies like Pinterest and Twitter did not become sensations because of Google search but because of the many ways users find out about great sites.

We want MySpace users to connect with celebrities in the same way that they do with musicians.

I don't believe that Donald Trump is a racist, per se. But some of the things that he does, some of the rhetoric that he uses, attracts racists and that sets the tone. And of course, you are judged by the company you keep.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with 'How?' or 'What?' so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.

Timbaland uses a lot of Indian music and that has certainly familiarised me about the music of India.

Trump knows how to play the media all on his own. He creates his own Twitter feed and uses it. He knows how to get the media's attention without the benefit of a state-controlled media. He does it all on his own. Trump understands how a free media works.

Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture.

One day, I would like to have my own chat show. Oprah is my idol because she uses her platform so responsibly.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

Why use your natural abilities to make someone feel bad? I just want to be the guy who uses his power to be positive.

Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.