Quotes About Impact

Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?'

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Success is not success without a successor.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Speak little, do much.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Legacy is greater than currency.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.