Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

The world is not ruled by those who have money, but those who have dreams.

I just want to be a leader.

Desire creates the power.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

Leadership is influence.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

I am and always will be a leader.

And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

We lead by influence. That is what good leadership is about.

Leadership doesn't amount to much unless you have followers.

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

You want power because it's an opportunity.

Leaders get people to do what they otherwise wouldn’t do.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

It is not a mistake to want power.

Leadership does matter.