Quotes About Influence

To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you are part of something important.

When you build an audience, you don't have to buy people's attention—they give it to you. This is a huge advantage. So build an audience. Speak, write, blog, tweet, make videos—whatever. Share information that's valuable and you'll slowly but surely build a loyal audience.

Set out to do good work. Set out to be fair in your dealings with customers, employees, and reality. Leave a lasting impression with the people you touch and worry less (or not at all!) about changing the world. Chances are, you won't, and if you do, it's not going to be because you said you would.

Questions bring options, decrees burn them.

What you do is your legacy.

Companies that live in such a zero-sum world don't "earn market share" from a competitor, they "conquer the market." They don't just serve their customers, they "capture" them. They "target" customers, employ a sales "force," hire "headhunters" to find new talent, pick their "battles," and make a "killing.

We've rejected the per-seat business model from day one. It's not because we don't like money, but because we like our freedom more! The problem with per-seat pricing is that it makes your biggest customers your best customers. With money comes influence, if not outright power.

With great power comes great ignorance.

But the most fortunate companies have audiences. An audience can be your secret weapon.

Remember: sentiments are infectious, whether good or bad.

What you do is your legacy. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see. And don't think it takes a huge team to make that difference either.

Even worse, they want to drag others down into their tomb. If you're hopeful and ambitious, they'll try to convince you your ideas are impossible. They'll say you're wasting your time.

Creativity, progress, and impact do not yield to brute force.

To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you're part of something important.

So build an audience. Speak, write, blog, tweet, make videos—whatever. Share information that's valuable and you'll slowly but surely build a loyal audience. Then when you need to get the word out, the right people will already be listening.

Start building your audience today. Start getting people interested in what you have to say. And then keep at it. In a few years, you too will get to chuckle when people discuss your "overnight" success.

Todas las empresas tienen clientes. Las empresas con suerte tienen seguidores. Pero las más afortunadas de todas tienen audiencias. Tu audiencia puede convertirse en tu arma secreta.

Enseña y crearás un vínculo imposible de conseguir con las tácticas tradicionales de marketing.

We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.

We have a history of wanting our leaders to be taller than average. That's probably because in ancient times everyone thought that tall leaders could see farther.

McQueen says he was heavily influenced by the book The Experience Economy, by B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore, whose thesis is that we've moved from being an agrarian economy to one based on industry and now to an experience economy, in which our lives are filled with memorable, branded experiences.

The story of who you are, were, will be: you don't have to accept any of this. If you want, bypass selective editing and let the whole thing go. All of it. Stay on the blank page as long as you want; then write a new story if you like. Just remember that you'll have to write in roles for other people that they like if you want others to play along.

So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.