Quotes About Influence

Hammett, David Morrell, Michael Crichton, and even Georges Simenon translations.

He says money always wins the day in the end.

It's so messed up how little control we have over whether we want somebody.

Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me.

When the barons and local elites recognize that political power will be increasingly more centralized and that this process is hard to stop, they will make demands to have a say in how this centralized power is used.

If these rulers would only get the right advice from the right advisers, the thinking goes, prosperity would follow.

Madison sostuvo que las Constituciones debían diseñarse de modo que «debe hacerse que la ambición contrarreste a la ambición».

absolute power corrupts absolutely.

While in England the profits of the slave trade helped to enrich those who opposed absolutism, in Africa they helped to create and strengthen absolutism. Farther

what rules society ends up with is determined by politics: who has power and how this power can be exercised.

The vicious circle is based on extractive political institutions creating extractive economic institutions, which in turn support the extractive political institutions, because economic wealth and power buy political power.

it is the political institutions of a nation that determine the ability of citizens to control politicians and influence how they behave. This in turn determines whether politicians are agents of the citizens, albeit imperfect, or are able to abuse the power entrusted to them, or that they have usurped, to amass their own fortunes and to pursue their own agendas, ones detrimental to those of the citizens.

the iron law of oligarchy.

The U.S. experience in the first half of the twentieth century also emphasizes the important role of free media in empowering broad segments of society and thus in the virtuous circle.

Hua could not repudiate the Cultural Revolution, and this weakened him. He was also a comparative newcomer to the centers of power, and he lacked the web of connections and informal relations that Deng had built up over many years.

Creating banking monopolies and giving loans to politicians is good business for politicians, if they can get away with it. It is not particularly good for the citizens, however.

Tradicionalmente, la economía ha ignorado la política, pero la comprensión de la política resulta esencial para explicar la desigualdad del mundo.

instituciones económicas inclusivas dieron a hombres de talento y visión como James Watt la oportunidad y el incentivo para desarrollar sus habilidades e ideas e influir en el sistema de manera que beneficiara a él y a la nación.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

He did not smile. I don't believe in anything, but I'm too much of a gambler not to be affected by a lot of things.

If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.

Leader of Character: someone who uses influence to achieve a moral or ethical goal.

Which do you want to be: a proficient manager or a Leader of Character? The first creates compliant employees. The second leads committed followers!