Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

People will support somebody who they think believes what he says and stands for.

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.

Politicians have to be themselves because if they are not, in the end, the people will see through it.

Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say, and what you think. /

It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.

But ultimately, at the end of the day, people want leaders who they respect and who they believe in and who can get things done.

Mike Hodge is someone I've counted on for strong, steady leadership from the very start of my union service, and he has never failed to deliver.

That's something I've prided myself on: doing exactly what I tell people when I'm running.

Yachty is a real dude. He's a person who sticks to his word.

Young people are craving something real, craving authenticity.

The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

To get the best out of your men, they must feel that you are their real leader and must know that they can depend upon you.

You don't lead by lip service, you lead by example.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?

Australians can trust me to get the job done. They can have the confidence that in the heart of the circumstances I will win through in their interests no matter how relentlessly negative the leader of the opposition is.

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.