Jeff Weiner Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

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

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

Leadership and partnership go together.

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

Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

The leadership of Christine Rampone goes without saying. She is the definition of a what a leader is.

What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.

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

Leadership is influence.

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.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

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

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.