Jim Rohn Quotes

Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.

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

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

The coin of the realm of leadership is trust and confidence.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

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.

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.

If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

People imitate their leader. Lead by example.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.

Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.