Quotes About Influence

You cannot lead by following.

Perhaps the most important element of each activity is to inspire a group of people to perform at their very best. The best teachers are the unsung heroes and heroines of any society,

One mark of a leader is his willingness to share information.

Leaders are usually unaware, or at least underestimate, the motivating power of their presence. Nobody sees themselves as others see them.

Many people cannot stop long enough to listen - especially when they become successful and all the people around them are being obsequious and pretending to hang on their every word.

La autoridad y el control se basan en ganarse la confianza de las personas a las que se va a dirigir.

Un líder no es uno de los chicos.

One player's drive can have an enormous effect on a team - a winning drive is like a magical potion that can spread from one person to another.

If you're examining successful people, look at their mother and father, study what they did, for clues about energy and motivation.

As a leader, you don't need to be loved, though it is useful, on occasion, to be feared. But, most of all, you need to be respected.

I never expected the players to love me, but neither did I want them to hate me, because that would have made it impossible to extract the most from them. All I wanted was for them to respect me and follow my instructions.

Todo el que aspire a ser un gran líder ha de lucirse a la hora de vender sus ideas y aspiraciones

I realise that we're shaped by lots of other forces beyond just watching, listening and reading. We're all accidental victims of our parents' DNA; we are shaped by the luck of the draw, the circumstances in which we grew up and the education we received. But we all have two sets of very powerful tools that we completely control: our eyes and our ears. Watching others, listening to their advice and reading about people are three of the best things I ever did.

The best protection against attacks from others comes from a few people whose opinions you really care about. The yells of a horde of abusive banshees always fade away when you have the support of a few people that you respect.

I was the puppet master, not the control freak.

Nobody had ever explained to me that working with, and through, others is by far the most effective way to do things - assuming, of course, that they understand what you want and are keen to follow. I gradually began to understand that this is the difference between management and leadership.

Anyone who aspires to be a great leader needs to excel at selling his ideas and aspira tions to others. Sometimes you have to persuade people to do things they don't want to do, or to sell them on the idea that they can achieve something they had not dreamed about.

a vast gulf separates a great leader from a very good manager.

The great leader knows that most success comes from making a few large decisions correctly rather than trying to be involved in making lots of small choices.

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

The magic is over, but its effects will live forever.

Even in my time, we knew that men were not in charge. Oh, they might bluster as if they were. But when it came down to it, we women bore much of the influence. Often, my father would make some grand pronouncement in the evening. And the next morning, he had changed his mind. After a while, I realized that it was my mother who had changed it, quietly, in the night.

Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.

Control is part of faking it