Top 64 Leadership Is Influence Quotes
#1. 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.
John C. Maxwell
#4. Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.
Charles R. Swindoll
#5. The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.
John C. Maxwell
#6. Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.
John C. Maxwell
#7. 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
#8. He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.
John Kasich
#9. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
Robin S. Sharma
#10. Your influence on others is your net worth, treat it as such.
Peprah Boasiako
#11. The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. Whatever you will accomplish is restricted by your ability to lead others.
John C. Maxwell
#12. Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.
Carmine Gallo
#13. Whatever is our 'contribution' to a situation..
Is all that we can 'influence' to alter/improve the situation..
In our control therefore, is this INFLUENCE!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#14. Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.
John C. Maxwell
#15. People fail to realize there's a difference in kinds of money. There is old money and there is new money. Old money has political power but new money has only purchasing power. (1963)
LIFE Magazine
#16. Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.
Myles Munroe
#17. To predict is to control, to co-create is to influence what you would like to bring into being.
Pearl Zhu
#18. The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.
Jeff Jarvis
#19. It is what the "I" stands for - Information, Innovation, Insight, Improvement, or Influence, that needs to be represented by CIOs in the Boardroom.
Pearl Zhu
#20. Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#21. When it comes to identifying a real leader, that task can be much easier. Don't listen to the claims of the person professing to be the leader. Don't examine his credentials. Don't check his title. Check his influence. The proof of leadership is found in the followers.
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John C. Maxwell
#22. Leadership is less about the position you hold than the influence you have. It's about doing world-class work, playing at your peak,
and leaving people better than you found them. It's about Leading Without a Title.
Robin Sharma
#23. Personal growth by tackling the 'big-picture" through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.
Archibald Marwizi
#24. Trying to influence another person without first establishing a relationship is like trying to boil water outside of a kettle. Trust, like the kettle, is the vessel in which all things work together to generate powerful action
Denis G. McLaughlin
#25. Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.
John C. Maxwell
#26. The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.
Johnny Hunt
#27. Influence is the platform God gives you to help others succeed.
Johnny Hunt
#28. Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives.
Johnny Hunt
#29. Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior.
Stefan Fatsis
#30. The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.
H.W. Brands
#31. A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.
Criss Jami
#33. Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless.
Farshad Asl
#34. Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.
Roger Harrison
#35. It's never wrong to be rich, but I want to believe, success is not limited to riches; it involves influence. If your riches don't create any impact, you are missing it.
Israelmore Ayivor
#36. A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.
Awdhesh Singh
#37. Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
Johnny Hunt
#38. Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.
Aubrey Malphurs
#39. Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement
Phil Harding
#40. Leadership is more disposition than position - influence others from wherever you are.
John C. Maxwell
#41. Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!
Israelmore Ayivor
#42. Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.
Robert Johnson
#43. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
#44. Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
Joseph C. Rost
#45. Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.
Robert A. Caro
#47. Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.
Dan Kimball
#48. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Ken Blanchard
#49. Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
Henry Cloud
#50. My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
Don Shula
#51. I think that there is a strong argument that our [USA's] leadership, our strength, our influence begins with having an economy that is producing good jobs with rising incomes, and I see the connection there.
Hillary Clinton
#52. We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.
Leif Erikson
#53. Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do.
Robin Sharma
#54. Social media is the greatest leadership tool ever invented. It gives you the opportunity to amplify your voice, extend your influence, and create a tribe of passionate followers who want to hear from you.
Michael Hyatt
#55. In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.
Agatha Christie
#56. Leadership is influencing others through modeling.
Farshad Asl
#57. The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.
Max McKeown
#58. Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others
Saji Ijiyemi
#59. Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.
J. Oswald Sanders
#60. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
#61. Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.
Ken Blanchard
#62. We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
Wendy Kopp
#63. Leadership is service, not position.
Tim Fargo
#64. Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.
Michael Josephson
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