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Quotes on Leadership and Influence

What is leadership? Leaders help themselves and others to do the right things. Check out quotes on how leaders effectively build trust and increase their influence with others.

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What is leadership? Leaders help themselves and others to do the right things. They set direction, build an inspiring vision, and create something new. One essential leadership skill is the ability to influence.

Check out quotes on how leaders effectively build trust and increase their influence with others.

A company is a collection of people. It reflects the personality of its employees. If a company employs dislikable people, it will be a dislikable company. If a company hires likable people, it will be a likable company – unless top management is dislikable and pollutes the behavior of employees.

— Guy Kawasaki, Guy Kawasaki, From the article “Guy Kawasaki: On The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds & Actions” by Jocelyn K. Glei in 99u.com

Management is keeping things the way they are today. Leadership is moving things forward from where they are today.

— Steve McClatchy, Steve McClatchy, From the book “Decide: Work Smarter, Reduce your Stress and Lead by Example”, page 19

Leadership is influence.

— John C. Maxwell, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

You don’t need a title to be a leader.

— Multiple Attributions, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

— Warren Bennis, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

— Brian Tracy, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

— Lao Tzu, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

— John F. Kennedy, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

A leader is a dealer in hope.

— Napoleon Bonaparte, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

— Harry S. Truman, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

— Max DePree, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

— Jack Welch, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

— General Montgomery, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

— Ken Kesey, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

— John C. Maxwell, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

— Albert Einstein, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

— Ken Blanchard, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

— Albert Schweitzer, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

— Orison Marden, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Influence doesn’t come to us instantaneously. It grows by stages.

— John Maxwell, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

You don’t have to be a “person of influence” to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.

— Scott Adams, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Once you’ve found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution.

— Stephen Covey, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

— Albert Einstein, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

The only inheritance that a man will leave that has eternal value is his influence.

— Larry Dobbs, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

— Deepak Chopra, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

— Clint Eastwood, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

— Napoleon Hill, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

— George Eliot, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

— Booker T. Washington, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.

— Walter Lippman, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Earn your leadership every day.

— Michael Jordan, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

— Andrew Carnegie, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

— Erskine Bowles, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

— John Quincy Adam, Dan Black, from the book, “Success Quotes Foundational Elements for Lasting Success”

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