Quotes about Influence

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.

People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for your to conform completely and never differ from some accepted surface standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boreing way there was.

If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.

Let them all go to hell, except the people, and then, when they come to power, we must be dam cautious to see what they will become.

This government has had much money. Much gold. They will give nothing to their friends. You are a friend. All right. You will do it for nothing and should not be rewarded. But to people representing an important firm or a country which is not friendly but must be influenced—to such people they give much. It is very interesting when you follow it closely.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Everything you do matters. Every move you make, every action you take...matters. Not just to you, or your family, or your business or hometown. Everything you do matters to all of us forever.

Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

Does adversity build character? . . . It does not. Almost all people can stand adversity of one sort or another. If you want to test a person's character, give him power.