Multiplier Quotes

“A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts; but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the "multiplier effect," it unfortunately carries more conviction.”

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.”

— Colin Powell

“Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.”

— Marcus Buckingham

“Spend the most time with your best people ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.”

— Marcus Buckingham

“The most successful people start with dominant talent-and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.”

— Tom Rath

“In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.”

— Raghav Bahl

“Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'”

— Samantha Power

“If telecom are seen as a rightful infrastructure for the growth of many other sectors in the economy and the multiplier force, then I think it doesn't deserve to be taxed so high.”

— Sunil Mittal

“Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.”

— Maurice Strong

“Trust is a great force multiplier.”

— Tom Ridge

“Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of the economy.”

— William Clay Ford, Jr.

“Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there's a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.”

— Elon Musk

“Be an instrument, a multiplier of God's blessings.”

— Robert Muller

“The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why terrorism is so frightening because it is a psychological war and until you understand it and try to reduce the dread, until then you become like a force multiplier for the terrorists inadvertently because you'll tend to overreact to terrorist attacks because the dread factor is so high.”

— Amanda Ripley

“The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.”

— John Henry Holland

“You cannot lead without passion. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. Passion actually covers a multitude of sins. Real EntreLeaders care deeply, and that is basically what passion is. Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply.”

— Dave Ramsey

“Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.”

— Derek Sivers

“When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.”

— Meg Whitman

“There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.”

— Shakira

“Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.”

— Michel Foucault

“Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.”

— Stephen Covey

“When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life ... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.”

— Stephen Covey

“To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.”

— Steve Jobs

“Great engineers are a huge multiplier.”

— Steve Jobs

“Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the freedom multiplier.”

— Tim Ferriss

“Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Gratitude is the great multiplier, so say thank you for your health every single day.”

— Rhonda Byrne

“Gratitude is the great multiplier.”

— Rhonda Byrne

“In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.”

— Colin Powell

“Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.”

— Marianne Williamson