Quotes About Influence

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.