Quotes About Leaders And Followers

#1. 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

#2. Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.

Joseph C. Rost

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#7. Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

Colin Powell

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

Brian Tracy

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

Warren G. Bennis

#20. Cause we they leaders, and they the followers
And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'

Kanye West

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. There's leaders, and there's followers ... but I'd rather be a d*ck than a swallower

Kanye West

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. By pushing children and wanting quick success, parents are producing followers, not leaders.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#28. 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

#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. There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart

Will.i.am

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Warren G. Bennis

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.

Myles Munroe

#41. The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!

Israelmore Ayivor

#42. Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

Warren G. Bennis

#43. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

Hans Selye

#51. 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