Ben Jonson Quotes

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

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 came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

You can trust Charlie Crist.

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.