Quotes About Influence

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Popularity is not leadership.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

Leadership is a choice, not a position

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done