Quotes About Influence

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.

Leadership is about being a servant first.

One voice can change a room.

They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership is even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

All leaders are readers.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

A measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.

Bad leadership is an oxymoron.

Good leadership is pervasive persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

Leadership is a choice you make, not a place you sit.

Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

Lead from the heart, not the head.

Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.

I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It's something that I've always exploited – with good results.