Quotes About Influence

Mom talked a good game about the power of blackness, but she knew that the white world held even more power. You just needed to find a way to break in.

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Leader leads people. Leader does not follow public opinion

Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends - this is anathema to concept of nationalism.

Leader follows his ideology, Leader does not follow his relatives and friends

Virtues are no less contagious than vices.

It is the parent who has borne me: it is the teacher who makes me man.

Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people.

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

This is it, the most powerful thing in the world because all men go crazy for it, more precious than gold since for its sake rich men lose fortunes, sweeter than power because craving for it makes leaders of countries risk their jobs, more powerful than honor because it makes fools of respectable men… It's more powerful than all the world for it contains the whole world plus heaven and hell beside… The power of this grace makes nuclear bombs look like firecrackers.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well." ? Frederick Douglass

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power." —John Steinbeck

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate. – Anonymous

Groupthink can then be formed with respect to this or that information

So, in bigger-picture Machiavellian scheme of things, it transpires that the mind must be disposed of, with special emphasis on its detecting components. There are two traditional methods for achieve something like this – to keep people, in general, as stupid and illiterate as possible, and, if that doesn't work, to keep their minds fixated on the objective