Quotes About Influence

Never let people see what you want, because they will not let you have it. Never let anybody see what you feel, because it gives them too much power. You're probably better off not showing weakness whenever you can avoid it, because they'll go for you.

I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.

Cambridge Analytica will try to pick at whatever mental weakness or vulnerability that we think you have and try to warp your perception of what's real around you.

Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.

As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities.

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.

Maybe Rock and Elizabeth Warren could team up and shore up each other's weaknesses. Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and all the experience, and The Rock could sell it to the people, 'cause the people could smell what Rock is cooking.

I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn't have any of those things.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

As more wealth and political power is amassed - as bitcoins rise in value - Congress and various lobbying groups will be influenced to an ever greater extent by the interests of Bitcoin owners who - in turn - will lobby to keep the Internet and Bitcoin alive and growing.

In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.

Anybody that lives in America and has parents with a moderate amount of wealth can be spoiled. I see it every day - kids who are just running their parents over to get what they want because kids are smart, and they know they can manipulate their parents.

My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give.

It's up to the person who's being creative to find ways to emerge and shake up the world of wealth.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become a poor man.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

The things being smuggled in under the cover of Brexit will damage so much of what we hold dear. A cabal of tycoons would see their wealth and influence turbocharged, while the mass of the population would see their prosperity, their security and, ultimately, their liberty dwindle away.