Top 64 Leader Follower Quotes
#1. One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.
John W. Gardner
#4. A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.
Gautama Buddha
#5. Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.
Shaquille O'Neal
#6. But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
Edmund Burke
#8. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.
Criss Jami
#9. See, we're intellectual equals. I am as smart as your mother, and she is as smart as me. This is a problem. There's no pecking order. A relationship is like anything else. It needs a leader and a follower.
Marjorie Celona
#10. A great leader is almost always a great follower for he knows what to learn and from whom.
Awdhesh Singh
#11. I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.
Muhammad Ali
#12. You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone.
Awdhesh Singh
#13. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
#14. My dad - who was a tough guy, a Green Beret - always looked nice and wore these bright Sansabelt pants. He always said, "You have two options: You can be a follower or you can be a leader. And you don't ever want to follow anybody." And that's kind of become my philosophy about everything.
Bubba Watson
#15. I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why ... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.
Ashton Kutcher
#16. He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle.
#17. I've been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.
Creed Bratton
#18. The follower is as important as the leader.
Jack Hyles
#19. Do not be a follower. Be a leader. Rebel-Rebel-Rebel.
Nadair Desmar
#20. To quote Alfred Einstein: 'a follower tells, but a leader shows.
Peter Lerangis
#22. Be a leader, not a follower. Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot be.
Vernon Davis
#23. Initiative, imagination, and courage distinguish between a leader and a follower.
Debasish Mridha
#24. It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.
Derek Sivers
#25. Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.
John C. Maxwell
#26. The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. ... The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
Derek Sivers
#27. Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Lewis H. Lapham
#28. The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.
Marcus Buckingham
#29. When a man, whether he is a leader or follower, admits that he is "too busy" to change his plans, or to give attention to any emergency, he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.
Napoleon Hill
#30. The first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader, and in a startup, that first follower is usually a cofounder.
Guy Kawasaki
#31. Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.
Andy Stanley
#32. [Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but
only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.
T.H. White
#33. Do not Speak for Anyone.
Just let them know their Right to Speak.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#34. Just because your friend does it, doesn't mean you have to. Be a leader, not a follower.
Diana Lopez
#35. The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
Oleg Cassini
#36. Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.
Virginia Woolf
#37. There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.
Derek Sivers
#38. The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The
Napoleon Hill
#39. All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
Hakeem Olajuwon
#40. I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
Dustin Diamond
#41. Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a follower, and constantly build the best products possible.
Robert Noyce
#42. Anyone can follow a crowd.
It's the leader that follows the facts.
Richard Diaz
#43. Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.
Steve Jobs
#44. You can be a leader, a follower or out of business.
Terence Mauri
#45. Every leader attracts a different type of follower from the left or the right, from the lowest or the highest class. Every leader unwittingly attracts certain stereotypes that fuel their underlying agenda.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#46. To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower,
Herb Kelleher
#47. My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.
Bubba Watson
#48. It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course
Orson Scott Card
#49. The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.
Alan Greenspan
#50. You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.
Charlie Munger
#51. I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised.
Tyler, The Creator
#52. Many people are leaders trapped in a follower's body.
Myles Munroe
#54. To me it's very important to be a leader not a follower. Sometimes it takes balls and heart to do that. Sometimes it's not that east to say.
Shane Bunting
#55. The follower of fashion can be as honest as the leader of the rebellion against it.
Vincent Price
#56. My mother used to tell me to be a leader, never a follower. As a respect to my the words of my mother, I cannot place my faith in God or anyone else, because if I do, I am merely a follower. In order to respect my mother's wishes, I had to dethrone God himself and claim the title as leader.
Lionel Suggs
#57. I think we have to rethink the concept of "leader." 'Cause "leader" implies "follower." And, so many- not so many, but I think we need to appropriate, embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for.
Grace Lee Boggs
#58. A leader is one who travels the path carved out by him, and he 'leads' himself onward on that path. If his path is good and his goals are desirable, many more may follow him in their desire to achieve the same goal. Hence, followership is the effect of leadership and not its cause.
Awdhesh Singh
#59. Be a follower. Be a leader. Learn what it means to be both. Don't follow a follower. Follow your heart. Be careful of frauds. They are all around us.
Sadiqua Hamdan
#60. I'm not a follower, but I'm not brave enough to be the leader either. I don't see this as a flaw; it's a strength, really. Leaders get burned for having strong opinions. I get to have them without the pretentious bravado.
Tarryn Fisher
#61. The pace of a leader determines the pace of his follower.
Sunday Adelaja
#62. Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.
Erik Erikson
#63. Be not a Follower, because of others want that, be always the Leader from Ourselves.
Jan Jansen
Jan Jansen
#64. I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
Mark Wahlberg
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