“The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.”

“I don't see it as abnormal in any way; he's just on the private end of the spectrum. But I don't think that it influences his function.”

“Denny is good at picking up the pieces. He is a very soothing influence. At the end of the day, I think people will be looking to Denny for leadership.”

“There are multiple factors influencing bond prices right now, not the least of which is the uncertainty about what the Fed is going to do going forward.”

“I had all that under my belt as an influence. The more I looked back, the more I realized I'm a lucky guy.”

“Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.”

“Citations are an acknowledgement of intellectual debt. The impressive number of citations these exceptional researchers have received is evidence of their profound influence on modern scientific thought.”

“The most insidious influence on the young is not violence, drugs, tobacco, drink or sexual perversion, but our pursuit of the trivial and our tolerance of the third rate.”

“I don't know if I feel necessarily more cynical in terms of corporate influence. I think I am more aware of it.”

“Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.”