Quotes About Influence

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Be a leader, not a superior.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

Leaders can be wrong - but they can not be unclear.

As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

If you're not creating waves, then you're not pushing enough.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.

When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.