Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.

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.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia - I believe that is my greatest wealth.

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.

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

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

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.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

They always come back when they learn that not every woman's gonna treat them this good.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Once you take care of people, people respect you.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

Good leadership is leadership that shows vulnerability.

The coin of the realm of leadership is trust and confidence.

Believe me, Winston, that hat fits you perfectly. You are going gradually have to get used to me leading you.

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader. You can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.

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.

Men do not obey him by virtue of tradition or statute, but because they believe in him.

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

I've found throughout life that people do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.