Top 100 Leaders Not Followers Quotes
#1. You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.
Tonya Hurley
#2. Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.
David Meerman Scott
#4. Too many kings can ruin an army
Homer
#5. True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
Robert Townsend
#6. There is no master without a servant and there is no country without citizens. There can't be leaders without followers or subjects. There is no harvest without sowing.
David Ssembajjo
#7. The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.
Ralph Nader
#8. The best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.
Mary Parker Follett
#9. Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.
John C. Maxwell
#10. 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
#11. When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.
Craig Groeschel
#12. Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.
Gail Sheehy
#13. A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.
Neale Donald Walsch
#14. To be Toltec is a way of life. It is a way of life where there are no leaders and no followers, where you have your own truth and live your own truth. A Toltec becomes wise, becomes wild, and becomes free again.
Miguel Ruiz
#15. I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.
Judy LaMarsh
#16. The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It's to create more leaders.
Ralph Nader
#17. Followers of today are the leaders of tomorrow, remember there is a costly price for every step towards the leadership destination.
Euginia Herlihy
#18. Christ manifests his divine leadership in your sincere followership. Christ's followers become true leaders because Christ is the model of true leadership.
Israelmore Ayivor
#19. Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.
Ben Bradlee
#20. Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
Warren G. Bennis
#21. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
Brian Tracy
#22. Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.
Colin Powell
#24. Asuras are not bad people; they just have an understanding of dharma that is not valid for today's world. Sometimes, the followers are good but the leaders let them down.
Amish Tripathi
#25. A true leader is someone who can turn people from followers into leaders
Sunday Adelaja
#26. Leaders attract followers, while followers attract leftovers. Become a leader worth joining by becoming a person of
Dylan Cruise
#27. There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart
Will.i.am
#28. Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.
Richard Marcinko
#29. Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that.
Tom Rath
#30. a parallel world than a religious kind of afterlife. In fact, he was especially critical of religious leaders, whom Twain felt had been using the fear of death and threats of hell to control the minds of their followers. Over the Ouija board, Twain told Hutchings:
Richard Bullivant
#31. Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.
Judith M Bardwick
#32. By pushing children and wanting quick success, parents are producing followers, not leaders.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#33. A strong team consists of people who know how to follow a leader.
Sunday Adelaja
#34. Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.
Marlene Caroselli
#35. No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.
Louis L'Amour
#36. You won't be surprised to know, therefore, that the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses are the same organisation at the top level where the Elders of the Mormons and the leaders of the Watchtower Society operate a very different agenda to the one their followers believe.
David Icke
#37. I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
Babe Ruth
#39. There's leaders, and there's followers ... but I'd rather be a d*ck than a swallower
Kanye West
#40. Heroic leaders often made mistakes ... mistakes that were amplified by the number of followers who were held in thrall by charisma. (Introduction to Dune Messiah)
Brian Herbert
#41. In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.
Thomas Sowell
#42. Leaders think it's possible. They inspire followers to believe in the same good news and it becomes a blessing to them. Leadership is all about inspiring people to believe in what becomes profitable to them!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.
J.R. Rim
#44. For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.
Rick Perlstein
#45. Leaders must always set the highest standard. In a summer campaign, leaders must always endure their share of the sun and the heat and, in winter, the cold and the frost. In all labors, leaders must prove tireless if they want to enjoy the trust of their followers.
Xenophon
#46. A leader must produce other leaders. Why do you want to produce followers, when by being called a leader the assumption is that you already have followers? Influence those who follow to birth their kind and develop others to lead.
Archibald Marwizi
#47. Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
Tom Peters
#48. There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.
Big Boi
#49. LEADERS Initiate Lead; pick up phone and make contact Spend time planning anticipate problems Invest time with people Fill the calendar by priorities FOLLOWERS React Listen; wait for phone to ring Spend time living day-to-day; react to problems Spend time with people Fill the calendar by requests
John C. Maxwell
#50. Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
Colin Powell
#51. One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
John McGraw
#52. Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
Joseph C. Rost
#53. All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.
John W. Gardner
#55. Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
Bill Hybels
#56. The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
Warren G. Bennis
#57. The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.
Myles Munroe
#59. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
Steve Goodier
#60. Eaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way ... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.
Michelle Grattan
#61. World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.
George Ogilvie
#62. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
Warren G. Bennis
#64. Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers; real leadership is applauding the followers who become leaders.
Onyi Anyado
#66. Leaders earn a heck of a lot more money than followers.
T. Harv Eker
#67. Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?
Brian D. McLaren
#68. While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal ... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
Debashis Chatterjee
#69. The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
Garry Wills
#70. In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?
John C. Maxwell
#71. So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.
William Butler Yeats
#72. A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
Talib Kweli
#73. 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
#74. Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#75. Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and rose from the dead, so in comparison, He comes out superior to other great religious leaders.
Norman Geisler
#76. Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
Lance Secretan
#77. To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.
John C. Maxwell
#78. Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope
Tom Rath
#79. A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
Eric Hoffer
#81. My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world.
John The Apostle
#82. Passionate leaders driven by passionate beliefs draw passionate followers.
Albert Mohler
#83. Follow your heart, not the latest headlines.
T.F. Hodge
#84. Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.
Hans Selye
#85. Followers often hesitate to act, out of fear that they'll do the wrong thing. Leaders aren't afraid to make a call, even when they're not sure if it's the right one. They'd rather make a decision and be wrong than suffer from the paralysis of indecision.
Anonymous
#86. The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#87. If prophets are real, they are not leaders but followers.
M.F. Moonzajer
#88. Know the strength of the followers and tap into their energy. Get others involved. Trust them to do their best. Finally, don't forget to praise the workers.
Teresa Hampton
#89. Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.
Warren G. Bennis
#90. Although leaders and followers are closely linked, it is the leader who often initiates the relationship, creates the communication linkages, and carries the burden for maintaining the relationship.
Peter Northouse
#91. When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.
Bertrand Russell
#92. Leaders Who Attract Followers ... Need to Be Needed
Leaders Who Develop Leaders ... Want to Be Succeeded
John C. Maxwell
#93. Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
Seth Godin
#94. Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.
Nido R. Qubein
#95. While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.
Alcee Hastings
#96. Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
James MacGregor Burns
#97. If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.
John C. Maxwell
#98. Leaders who keep promises and followers who respond in kind create an opportunity generate enormous energy around their commitment to serve others.
Max De Pree
#99. The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.
Nelson Mandela
#100. Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.
Simon Sinek
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