Quotes About Influence

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of the future do you then cause to happen?

The key is never sheer numbers. The key is the correct catalyst. A pebble can start a landslide and the boulders have no say in the matter as they tumble down the hill.

I think Upton Sinclair once wrote that a man has difficulty understanding something if his salary depends on his not understanding.

A 2016 study found that purchasing even a single meal with a value of $20 for a physician can be enough to change the way that he prescribes. And for all their lip service to the contrary, the Sacklers didn't need studies to tell them this.

In Arthur's view, it was laughable—even insulting—to insinuate that a colorful ad or a steak dinner might be enough to sway the clinical judgment of an MD. Doctors, he argued, simply can't be bought.

According to a study by the Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity, Purdue and other drug companies that manufacture opioid painkillers spent over $700 million between 2006 and 2015 on lobbying in Washington and in all fifty states. The combined spending of these groups amounted to roughly eight times what the gun lobby spent. (By comparison, during the same period, the small handful of groups pushing for limits on opioid prescribing spent $4 million

I am one of the most famous reformed junkies on the planet," she told Joss's nemesis, Page Six. "What is it about me that says to Joss Sackler, 'I will sell out to you?

He worried about what he described as "an unwholesome entanglement" between the people who prescribe our medicines and the people who make and market them.

No single individual did more to shape the character of medical advertising than the multi-talented Dr. Arthur Sackler." It was Arthur, the citation continued, who brought "the full power of advertising and promotion to pharmaceutical marketing.

The following month, the Guggenheim announced that after a two-decade relationship in which the Sacklers had donated $9 million, the museum would no longer accept any future donations from the family. The same week, the National Portrait Gallery in London revealed that it had turned down a $1.3 million gift from the Sacklers. Two days after the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate announced that it would not "seek or accept further donations from the Sacklers.

Inside Purdue Frederick, power was determined entirely by one's relationship to the family.

Richard's cousin Kathe Sackler would claim that it was she who first suggested oxycodone

Marietta believed that Sophie Sackler had been the last thing that held the three of them together. "It seemed to me that her strong, matriarchal force had maintained the vision of family togetherness," she wrote. "When she was gone,

Conventional wisdom had it that every handler wants a highly placed source.

Arthur's answer was to adopt the seductive pizzazz of more traditional advertising—catchy copy, splashy graphics—and to market directly to an influential constituency: the prescribers. Arthur had inherited from his parents a reverence for the medical profession.

hate to say this but you could become the Pablo Escobar of the new millennium.

Pfizer had a tranquilizer that it recommended for use by children with an illustration of a young girl with a tearstained face and a suggestion that the drug could alleviate fears of "school, the dark, separation, dental visits, 'monsters.'" But once Roche and Arthur Sackler unleashed Librium and Valium, no other company could compete.

According to Sonnenreich, Arthur was the controlling force behind the agency: "Frohlich's firm, basically, was Arthur's." But the bond between the two ran deeper still. It wasn't just Arthur who was close with Bill Frohlich: Mortimer and Raymond Sackler also became friends and confidants of the German adman.

His name was Arthur Sackler. He was Morty and Ray's older brother. All three of them were physicians;

An awful lot of people come onto earth, eat, work and die and never contribute anything to the world,' Albert Price told a reporter. 'If they die, at least they will have done something.

Think of it as the dangle: a wealthy patron can often enjoy favor and influence with a hard-up institution that are far out of proportion to any gifts that have actually been made, because the canny donor learns to dangle the possibility of future gifts, and that is a possibility that the museum or university cannot afford to overlook. When the dangle is executed correctly, there is almost nothing that the institution will not do to keep the donor (or even the prospective donor) happy.

the very government officials whose job it was to regulate the company and hold it to account ended up seduced by a new job at the company itself.

One unadvertised hazard in the life of a plutocrat is that the people around you can be prone to yes-man sycophancy.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.