I think the old saying: Knowledge is power was good until 20th century. In democratic world, where power dissipates to people in the form of electoral vote, the conventional power "POWER" is very vague. I am having hard to think what is power? My grandfather certainly was more powerful in my family tree of 5 dozen people: son, daughter, daughter-in-laws, son-in-laws, .. grandkids. He was very powerful because we had to obey his orders, when he used to ask us to study, we had to study: shouting ... but today here in usa, can you ask your kid to this or that? Nope. Are you powerful? Yes, you are? But, how? The definition of power yesterday was ruling someone, ordering someone, forcing someone to do something, because people were afraid of force. Today, classic definition of power that relates power to Force is confined in the book of Physics: Power = Force x velocity. I think in democratic world of 21st century, Power should be defined in different way. You are powerful if you are knowledgable in the field, and you can use your knowledge not to force someone to do something, but you use your knowledge based power to colloborate, coordinate, cooperate, and establish a partnership to produce results: the success. Classic definition of Power was related to "Force", and velocity "motion", but today the force should be partitioned to "intertia" and acceleration (last year you had $10 profit, and this year if you are having the same $10 profit, you will be fired: you must acclerate the profit). The power in democracy has three components: "Intertia:resistance to motion", "acceleration", "motion:velocity": and they are judged on you how well you can have cooperation, coordination, collaboration, and partnership in business to get success. That happens at home, at community, at society, in profession, in workplace. In addition to these charactersitics values, you will need to earn trust, establish faith, and be truthful. When Cleveland, a 47 year old lawyer from ohio got landslide success in just 3 years in 188x, he became candidate for US President, and his opponents wanted to dig his dirt, then Democratic party colleagues recommended him to lie, but he relied on truthfulness, and told the true story, and became the president of US, and he is the only president who won the election twice with a gap in between. Today, as you see in us politics too, Ted Kennedy had trouble when he was 19 years old while a student at Harvard, and his father reached to public told the truth and cleared the fog. Today's power comes from the factors outlined above. But, make sure that right time, right place, and in front right people. Girija told YCL as Young Criminal league to YCL, but lost credibility because he missed opportunity, and told the truth but at wrong time, and at wrong mass. He missed similar opportunity in 2046, when he told that it is win for all, and in fact, what he said was true: in inclusive democracy the 2046 was win for all, but he was booed.