Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

Anyone who influences others is a leader.

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

I think any politician, regardless of their religious conviction, has to be a megalomaniac - they have to be! Anyone who works in that kind of job has to be so full of himself to do that kind of thing.

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

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

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.

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

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

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

I'm a believer that charisma makes a huge difference in people's decisions to follow you. However, it's not just that you say it well, but it's that you know it well. It helps if you can say it well enough that people want to follow you. Charisma isn't required, but it makes a big difference.

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

People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.

A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.

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

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

You have to have a sense of ego and of purpose to go into politics.

Power won't change me.

I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.

World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.