Richard Edelman Quotes

Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.

Most of my diversity conversations are had with the majority population, because frankly, those people are the people who have the most influence over everybody's career.

Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

Power is being able to affect the hegemony of existing systems.

I have no right to be a king, but I have the right to create a king.

Things are politics for a long time before they become history.

Leadership and power vacuums will be filled.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

Influence inside depends on outside loyalty.

The historical method is often deemed conservative, because it traces the gradual and stately growth of our venerable institutions; but it may exercise a precisely opposite influence by showing the gross injustice which was blindly perpetrated during this growth.

People having the power to express themselves at scale is a new kind of force in the world — a Fifth Estate alongside the other power structures of society. People no longer have to rely on traditional gatekeepers in politics or media to make their voices heard, and that has important consequences.

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Kim was the one who taught us how to use Twitter and how to engage and really capture the attention of followers and the fans.

I think politics is really important to our lives. At its best and highest form, it can make the biggest difference in the world and at its worst, it is the worst skullduggery on planet Earth.

Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.

One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.

If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.

Twitter can make a lot of things happen if you get enough retweets.

Since John Smith's death and the Blair/Brown takeover in 1994, party members have watched the way in which an elite leadership group has formed in the Labour party, cutting itself off from the party's traditions, values and norms of behaviour.

If you're looking to grow your user base, is there a best way to cost-effectively attract valuable users? I'm increasingly convinced the best way is by harnessing a concept called social proof, a relatively untapped gold mine in the age of the social web.

A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

There's always a little bit of friction when you're trying to democratize an industry.

I hope somewhere to break down what seems to be a kind of robotic communication between those in power and those who are understanding power.

If I want to get my ideas out, I have to be involved in the mechanism that the world is ran by.