Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.
Change the leader, change the organization.
It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.
Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.
A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.
There's something about the soul of a country that is somehow connected to the head of state.
Leadership starts at the top.
I think, in any workplace environment, the atmosphere trickles down from the top.
Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.
Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'
When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
Every president is a product of those who preceded him.
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
So you [Romans] when you have got together in a body, let yourselves be guided by those whom singly you would never think of being advised by.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.
