Influence Quotes

"The environment shapes people's actions." "A man is known by the company he keeps" "Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, collaborators in shaping our lives, invisible vortexes with effects that are internalized and perpetual." "When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people" "The power of a writer is that he is a powerful figure in the world" "To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them" "Fear is such a strong passion that it compels all other natural affections and by consequence all resolutions" "People are more likely to accept an idea if you can make them think it was their own." "An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot" "He who is firm in will molds the world to himself" "The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind." "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." "Politics is the art of controlling your environment" "Our social and emotional circuitries influence our aspirations and help shape our destinies." "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society" "I believe that the most powerful weapon you can have is the power of conversation." "If gold rusts, what then can iron do?" "Success is what attracts the right people to you" "Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power" "The key to success is not what you know, it’s who you know."