Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence

Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

I almost think were I to win some small success now, I could become dictator.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.

I found early on that having a position of power really doesn't bring the fulfillment that many people think it does.

You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.

I only aim at the powerful.

Everyone wants to lead when things are going well.

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

In order to govern, you have to win.

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

I'd like to build a superteam. I'd like the superteam to come to me.

I wanted to be the man, the King of Miami.

I want to ultimately own the world.

When you make people a lot of money, it gives you leverage in Hollywood.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

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