Quotes about Influence

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.

Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does.

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.