Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden’s line frames power not primarily as something seized through force or inherited status, but as something that naturally accumulates around competence. “Gravitates” suggests an almost physical law: in workplaces, politics, and social life, authority tends to settle on the person who demonstrates practical know‑how—how to solve problems, organize others, and get results. The quote also carries a self-help moral typical of Marden: cultivate skill, judgment, and initiative, and influence will follow. At the same time, it implies a warning: lacking mastery, one’s claim to leadership is unstable, because power is attracted to effectiveness more than to titles.