Jeffrey Archer Quotes

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominance.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Power shows the man.

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

I like being in charge of the remote control.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

I don't seek power and do not run around.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I like power and I like to use it.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

The way to have power is to take it.

I'm interested in power.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.