Quotes About Influence

The future of marketing is leadership

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Leadership is character in action.

America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

Leadership is the dream made reality.

'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.