Bob Ainsworth Quotes

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

Leadership does not depend on being right.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

If you want to lead, you’ve got to have followers. You’ve got to align people, and you do that through television.

If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

In this work, you have to convince everyone all the time, at different levels, to support your dream. I learned you have to be confident in order to do that.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

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.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

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

I think a good director is a good listener.

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

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.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

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

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.