Seth Godin Quotes

Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

Anyone who influences others is a leader.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

When Nelson Mandela came into the room, he changed the room.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

All men are created to lead, but we need somebody to lead us.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Leaders have to lead.

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

I'm not the kind of person who goes into the dressing room and says: 'I'm the Guv here.' But maybe I give off the aura that I'm the kind of person who can be a big player.

Was Effenberg a leader because he projected presence or because he had a presence? There is a difference.

Much of command is the ability to take command.

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

Be the leader you wish you had.