Quotes about Influence

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in so doing will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern, rather than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

As a communicator, I spend a good portion of my days sharing stories. People don't care a lot about cold facts. They don't want to look at pie charts. They want excitement. They like drama. They care about pictures. They want to laugh. They want to see and feel what happened. Statistics don't inspire people to do great things. Stories do!

There's only one thing more contagious than a good attitude—and that's a bad attitude.

Vows are powerful things, he said. They set things in motion.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

The souls of men are not measured by what they have done, but by what they leave behind.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.