Quotes About Influence

The person who signs the paycheck has the power to enslave another person's body, mind, and soul.

Money is one form of power.

The most important specialized skills are sales and marketing. The ability to sell—to communicate to another human being, be it a customer, employee, boss, spouse, or child—is the base skill of personal success.

Most of us have heard the saying, "You are what you eat." I have a different slant. I say, "You become what you study." In other words, be careful what you learn

Your ability to sell—to communicate and position your strengths—directly impacts your success.

The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner.

Choose friends carefully: the power of association First

Casi todos aprendemos de nuestros padres lo que sabemos sobre el dinero

Remember the golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules.

I realized that I would wind up like him if I hung around him much longer.

I chose not to listen to my poor dad, even though he was the one with all the college degrees.

how much the friends of my youth impacted the man I had become.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.

When he said good evening you felt that it was a good evening and that it was partly his doing that it was.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.

Influence other people for good.

every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them.

Thank God, I can keep the shadows of my life out of my work. I would not wish to darken any other life - I want instead to be a messenger of optimism and sunshine.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

He watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass judgement on it... She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence that would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would certainly lose if she were ever false to them.