James P. Gorman Quotes

What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

The most powerful people in my town were the doctors and the lawyers. I didn't really have any experience dealing with really powerful people until I started practicing law.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

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

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

One good thing about not having any clout is that all this money didn't come in and try to buy me.

Kings need the company of the intelligent far more than the intelligent need the company of kings.

There are two things that are fundamental—money and power, and I don’t care much about money

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

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

In Mexico, the perception of power is power.

I don't understand why everyone fights for power, money, fame.

I have no interest in the trappings of power.

If someone in a powerful position acts in a certain way or expresses a certain view, we implicitly assume that those actions and views are associated with power, and that emulating them may be to our advantage.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity.