Quotes About Influence

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.

We very often confuse personality with leadership.

Leadership is about creating new realities.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

To lead people, walk behind them.

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.