Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

Leaders don’t boss. Not if they’re any good. They persuade. America needs a whole lot more persuading and a lot less bossing.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

If you want to lead, you’ve got to have followers. You’ve got to align people, and you do that through television.

Leadership involves persuasion, and conciliation, and education and patience. It's long, slow, tough work. That is the only kind of leadership I know or will believe in, or will practice.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I'm a leader.

We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

I like being a leader in real life.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Leadership and partnership go together.

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