Quotes About Influence

Just because politicians, scientists, and business execs are raging about it, and newspaper headlines are screaming it, doesn't mean the message sticks—or that people care. It takes more than that to change a culture. In

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.

Yeah, but you never told me why." "It reminds me of my grandmother," I admit. "We'd watch those old reruns one after another. Bewitched was her favorite." "Not

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

Words are loaded pistols.

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

Just because you have a thought, doesn't make you a thought leader!

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.

When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson

how you spend your money has a strong influence on how happy — or unhappy — it will make you. And, again, there's science behind this.

8. Follow the herd instead of your head

We humans co-evolve with our tools. We change the tools, and the tools change us.

Online, word of mouth changes. In the old world, someone might tell five people, but in the new world, you can tell 5000. But be careful, because it works both ways. If you make a customer happy, he can tell 5000 people, too.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

My mom wasn't a movie star.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

In his entire life, George Washington never spent a second watching CNN Headline News or making a Facebook post, and he had no Twitter followers!

Achieving simplicity begins with the basic notion that you're the captain of your fate: you are in control, steer the rudder, pull the lever, flip the switch, and call the shots.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.