Quotes about Influence

Integrity is your best friend. And it's also one of the best friends that your friends will ever have. When the people around you know that you're a person of integrity, they know that you want to influence them because of the opportunity to add value to their lives. They don't have to worry about your motives.

Remain Approachable As a Leader, Role Model, and Coach:

I observed that the greatest speakers didn't just tell better stories. They actually made the stories better by living them first.

A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker's main responsibility is developing others to do the work.

However, as a leader, if you can add results to relationships and develop a team of people who like each other and get things done, you have created a powerful combination.

The price of greatness is responsibility." That

As you and I grow and improve as leaders, so will those we lead. We need to remember that when people follow us, they can only go as far as we go. If our growth stops, our ability to lead will stop along with it.

The best way to become a person that others are drawn to is to develop qualities that we are attracted to in others. Just

But people of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener. For example, when Lyndon B. Johnson was a junior senator from Texas, he kept a sign on his office wall that read, "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're doin' all the talkin'." And Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth American president, once said, "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

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

leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

two things are responsible for making leadership rise? The first is competence. No one wants to follow an incompetent leader. The second is values. Values are principles that guide your decisions and behaviors.