Anthony Trollope Quotes

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

In the time it takes to heat a TV dinner, Clinton had convinced me that he was the smartest person in the room and that I was the center of his attention. In the next 25 years, I would see countless others fall just as quickly to the Clinton Touch.

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

There are different ways to be charismatic.

The capacity to persuade is an essential part of being a great leader.

If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

When I talk, people listen.

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

I'm a believer that charisma makes a huge difference in people's decisions to follow you. However, it's not just that you say it well, but it's that you know it well. It helps if you can say it well enough that people want to follow you. Charisma isn't required, but it makes a big difference.

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.

To be a leader means to be able to move masses

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.