The Miz Quotes

When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure - even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.

I can see that when I talk, guys listen.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

I can make men follow me to hell.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

The coin of the realm of leadership is trust and confidence.

Turning Intellect Into Influence

I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

I've never been uncomfortable being a frontman.

My first impression of Jane Fonda was she is a queen. She is royalty. She walks into the room - any room - and has this presence about her that demands respect.

I'm not the kind of person who goes into the dressing room and says: 'I'm the Guv here.' But maybe I give off the aura that I'm the kind of person who can be a big player.