Quotes About Influence

Donald J. Trump

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do.

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

Leverage: don't make deals without it.

How many have left a permanent mark, branding you with a story that you will never forget?

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

pretty websites don't sell things. Words sell things.

The strongest character in a story isn't the hero, it's the guide.

We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.

Never assume people understand how your brand can change their lives. Tell them.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

Nearly every human being is looking for a guide (or guides) to help them win the day.

Author Toni Morrison swats aside other possible sources of her success and says that the ONLY reason she is a great writer is because when she walked into a room as a child her father's face lit up.

Sometimes our identities get distorted because people lie about us and scare us, and sometimes our identities get distorted because of things we've actually done. The result is the same, though. Isolation.

Here's a thing I've noticed: the greatest leaders, the ones who impact the world the most, are somehow able to turn the other cheek. It's as though they believe so solidly in love, so robustly in forgiveness, they have the ability to forgive and even love those who attack them.

When it comes to marketing, the header on your website, the subject line of your email, the opening statement of your proposal, the title of your lead generator, your entire elevator pitch, the first line of your keynote address, and a thousand other things need to succinctly express one of the ways you help people survive.

If they don't, people will not listen.

We just raised the value of our product by more than 100 percent simply by using words. And words are free.

People don't buy products, vote for candidates, or join a movement because they are thinking rationally.

Everybody wants to be taken somewhere. If we don't tell people where we're taking them, they'll engage another brand.

The most powerful tool any of us can use to magically open doors is a one-liner.