Quotes About Influence

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

Expand the leadership.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.