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To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

I get influence from everybody and everything.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

Power is always a corrupting influence.