Quotes About Influence

American leadership is essential.

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

If God gives you a platform where you're influencing others, you need to steward it well.

Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

You have to understand the teen years of any leader to understand the mechanics of their leadership.

[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

You cannot have strong leadership without passion.

You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.

To influence others must keep growing themselves.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

Leaders: Captains of industry.

We communicate much more through our presence than the words.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

We can influence people for bad or good.

Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.