Nancy Duarte Quotes

Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

When people have something proven to them, and they see that it really benefits them, they don't have to be looking for a change or be at rock bottom. When they see something proven that is of benefit to them, they'll turn around 180 degrees and never look back.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I want to inspire people.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

Transformed people transform people.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Power, before it comes from arms or wealth, emanates from ideas.