Quotes About Influence

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

In this business, it is about making an impact.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.