Quotes About Influence

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

I am endorsed by some of the greatest business people in the world.

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.

I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

Republicans can't run for office without the support of business.