John C. Maxwell Quotes

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

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.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

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

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's a champion. He's won five of these or something like that, so you've got to trust a guy that's been here before and his view for our team.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

It isn't worth trying to lead if your people won't follow.

Trust your leaders and you will enjoy the fruits of your obedience.

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

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

Trust is fundamental, reciprocal and, ideally, pervasive. If it is present, anything is possible. If it is absent, nothing is possible. The best leaders trust their followers with the truth, and you know what happens as a result? Their followers trust them back. With that bond, they can do big, hard things together, changing the world for the better.

It means a lot to me as a quarterback if my receivers think I'm a good quarterback. It doesn't really matter what everybody else thinks, but it means a lot to me when I feel like those guys trust me.

I trust Mr. Wenger like no one else, so if he says that the best way to get my place in squad back would be go on loan, it means he's right.

I get on well with Mourinho. He trusts me and knows what I can give to the team.

The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

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.

Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.