Quotes About Dominance

In the realm of power, you must ask yourself, what is the point of chasing here and there, trying to solve problems and defeat my enemies, if I never feel in control?

what people cannot control, you can control for them.

Money must circulate to bring power.

Powerful people never waste time. Outwardly they may play along with the game — pretending that power is shared among many — but inwardly they keep their eyes on the inevitable few in the group who hold the cards. These are the ones they work on. When troubles arise, they look for the underlying cause, the single strong character who started the stirring and whose isolation or banishment will settle the waters again.

Power is a game. This cannot be repeated too often!

Crush the enemy" is a key strategic tenet of Sun-tzu, the fourth-century-B.C. author of The Art of War. The idea is simple: Your enemies wish you ill.

What money should buy is not lifeless objects but power over people.

human tongue is a beast that few can master.

as Machiavelli said, it is better to be feared than loved. Fear you can control; love, never.

Better to have others depend on you out of fear of the consequences of losing you than out of love of your company.

En un mundo dominado por las apariencias, en el que el valor está determinado por la presencia pública, el terrorismo puede ofrecer un espectacular atajo a la publicidad, y por eso los terroristas ajustan su violencia a los medios de información, particularmente a la televisión.

People who involve themselves completely in the immediate problem are intimidating; because they are focusing so intensely, they seem more powerful than they are.

Power requires self-discipline.

You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. They make you veer toward ideas that soothe your ego.

Because humans are social creatures by nature, power depends on social interaction and circulation. To make yourself powerful you must place yourself at the center of things, as Louis XIV did at Versailles.

As women come to attain more leadership positions, this less obtrusive style of authority might begin to alter our perception of some of the dominance cues so long associated with power.

There may be fewer mighty tyrants commanding the life and death over millions, but there remain thousands of petty tyrants ruling smaller realms, and enforcing their will through indirect power games, charisma, and so on. In every group, power is concentrated in the hands of one or two people, for this is one area in which human nature will never change: People will congregate around a single strong personality like planets orbiting a sun.

People trying to make a show of their authority are easily deceived by the surrender tactic.

All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely

Still, the intensive form of power provides more freedom than the extensive, because those who have it depend on no particular master, or particular position of power, for their security.

Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy. Kautilya, Indian philosopher third century B.C.

Power depends on the ability to fill a void ...

Caesar is a different category of man altogether. Pompey merely wants to rule the world. Caesar longs to smash it to pieces and remake it in his own image.

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.