“Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.”
Power reveals character. These quotes explore authority, influence, control, and the recurring lesson of history that power is dangerous precisely because it feels so good to the person who has it.
“In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.”
“Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.”
“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.”
“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
“The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.”
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.”
“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
“You can't trust anybody with power.”
“By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
“Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.”
“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.”
“Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
“They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'”