使影响力成为永久技能的关键因素：笑到最后的通常是最有影响力的人，而非最优秀的人。依靠事实而非影响力实际上可能会适得其反。若你不能吸引他人，那便无法领导。下列技能、工具和技巧能够帮助我们提高自己的影响力：（一）知道自己真正“销售”的是什么，（二）协调自己与他人的价值观，（三）展示你将帮助他们成为怎样的人，（四）培养自己的情商，（五）通过故事来分享你的想法、价值观和指令。

As a kid， I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills， vaccinate cattle， and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon， especially "Days of our Lives." My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club， a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S. and Canada. And every few summers， we'd join the caravan. We'd hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather's car， and off we'd go， in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers. I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to these trips. On one particular trip， I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car. My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips， and I hated the smell.

杰夫·贝索斯

心在开始爱的时候，它那种极伟大奇特的骚动是颇难理解而又相当甘美的。

雨果

只有事实才能捍卫观点：1、鼓励以事实为依据的公开辩论。2、不过分依赖数据，但会使用来自数据分析的洞察对团队决策进行补充。3、牢记基于事实≠真实，不断地对观点进行再次审视和讨论。4、辩论陷入僵局时，尝试站在对方的立场上辩论，找到自己立场中的漏洞。

帕蒂·麦考德

"The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity."

未来不是由现在提供的替代路径中选择的结果，而是一个被创造的地方——首先在思想和意志中创造，然后在活动中创造。

约翰·斯卡尔齐

口言之，身必行之。

墨子

命里有时终须有，命里无时莫强求。

表达对命运和机缘的豁达态度，常见于角色面对困境时的自我宽慰。