Quotes About Clout

What a business does (the way it competes and where it chooses to do so) usually is easily imitated. It is more difficult to respond to what a business is, since that involves acquiring or neutralizing specialized assets or skills. Anyone can decide to distribute cereal or detergent through supermarkets, but few have the clout to do it as effectively as, say, General Mills.

Money can buy many things. Even power.

Money is economic power.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

It was okay but then I found myself in that position of being merely a screenwriter. And you are merely the screenwriter, and there's no way around it. You don't have the same clout as the director.

Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But Britain's politicians - and its Foreign Office - have found it hard to adjust to the loss, not so much of onetime colonies as of the global clout the colonies once afforded.

she gave her a good clout to the ear.

Did I ask ye how old you were today? Get out of my face before I give ye a good clout to the ear.

Size is no guarantee of power.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

Nothing is more stylish than power.

Money is just another word for power.

They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.

In my experience, influence is power.

I never had a political power base.

People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.

Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table.

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

Given the proven human propensity for misusing power, it seems naïve to believe that the more clout people have, the happier they will be.

a lack of influence is of course its own kind of influence.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

This invisible force is the greatest of all leverage

I try to keep myself busy creatively; it's for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further.