Tom Landry Quotes

Leadership means getting people to do what they don’t want to do.

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

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

Leadership is influence.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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.

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.

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

Leadership does matter.

I can lead my team.

Leaders must lead.

I'm a leader.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

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

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.