Quotes About Influence

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

I went to Fountain Valley High School. I remember watching Grove Shakespeare productions here. It left a big impression on me.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

I think that Silicon Valley and technology can play a huge role in redefining what community looks like and how people come together and what authentic relationships look like, but that is not only their burden.

The iPad is becoming the babysitter... Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.

Silicon Valley has always been in my blood.

The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.

A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.

To me, the #1 key to success is 'creating lasting positive change in yourself and others.' That is what is most rare, most difficult, and most valuable about leading people.

Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.

The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.

Successful collaboration, in your mind, could be that your opinion is the most valuable and becomes the prevailing sort of direction. That's not collaborating.

Money isn't always the measure of how valuable you are to our society.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

I guess I talk about her because I'm interested; I'm listening. Taylor Swift's words are so valuable to so many young people, not just her #GirlSquad.

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

All the lessons I learned from my grandfather from the day I was born until the day he passed away served me well, and I think about them and use them every day. It was much more valuable than any business school could have provided.

Good scores are valuable, but centuries stick in the mind. There are influential people who might not notice a good innings of 60 or 70, but they will react if you get a hundred.

I wanted to make myself the most valuable player by making my presence felt at the decisive moments.

There are a number of ways to define most valuable player. For me, it's the guy who means the most to his team.

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?