Dalai Lama Quotes

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

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

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.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

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

I don't see myself as a leader, I just feel that everything I say, people are listening and people are doing.

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Anyone who influences others is a leader.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

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.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.

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

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

Leadership is influence.

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.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

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

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.