Don Yaeger Quotes

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.

To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

People who see no gray tend to convince others to follow them. If someone talks with great conviction and joy, people tend to agree with them.

We convince by our presence.

I know how to lead people; I know how to make people love me.

It isn’t leadership if no one follows.