Quotes About Influence

In boardrooms and bedchambers, in lecture halls and marketplaces, God is hardly seen as a player let alone the author, the one who holds in His hand each king's heart and directs it like a watercourse (Proverbs

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

If I was controlled by anything, it was my perception of who I was.

We can think twice, no, three times, before being openly critical, or rude, or angry. In going about the work God gives us, we must treat every person well, regardless of station or potential benefit to us. Let us stay keenly aware of the endless ripple of just being ourselves. For good and bad, we're all in PR.

After years of brushing up against all kinds of people in the public eye, I've learned that great leaders are first of all great servants—and that great service is modest, understated, in speech and action. Understatement is self-restraint, and self-restraint is hardly a sign of weakness. On the contrary, wisely used, few things carry more power.

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

People may forget what you said or what you did, but they will always remember how you made them feel.

To tell a story is to take power over it.

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

we are a we-species who do individually what we do largely because of each other. As my childhood excuse ran, 'Bigger boys made me do

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was not used to feeling intimidated. It was rather his job in life to intimidate others.

It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.

the light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand.

Language is intrinsically political, as how we talk about something conditions how we think about it,

History becomes a guidebook for geopolitics.

Peníze ti nutn? nezaru?í moc, ale moc ti vždycky p?inese peníze.

Putin je milosrdný autokrat. Nechce vás zabít - pokud ho k tomu nedonutíte.

Empire of the Czar

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.

To strengthen your interpersonal influence, don't win arguments. Instead, win hearts and minds.

Remember: You can't always change the people around you. But you can change the people you're around.

Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.