Quotes About Impact

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

The government is concerned about the population explosion, and the population is concerned about the government explosion.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

You are a big country now, but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold, you get pneumonia.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping, but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

The Bell System is like a damn big dragon. You kick it in the tail, and two years later, it feels it in its head.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.