Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.
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.
Power tends to get confused with repression.
When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.
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