If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, and do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.

Se le tue azioni ispirano gli altri a sognare di più, imparare di più, fare di più e diventare di più, allora sei un leader.

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

Leaders are those individuals who live by empowering beliefs and teach others to tap their full capabilities by shifting the beliefs that have been limiting them.

leadership is communicating others’ worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you — not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.

I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.

What is a leader?” people ask me. My simple answer: “Someone unafraid to take charge. Someone people respond to and are willing to follow.” I believe that leaders must be born with a natural connection and affinity to others, which then must be encouraged and developed by parents and teachers and molded by training, experience, and mentoring. You can learn to be a better leader. And you can also waste your natural talents by ceasing to learn and grow.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us. Whether individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves. This is a book for those who want to inspire others and for those who want to find someone to inspire them.

Great leaders, in contrast, are able to inspire people to act. Those who are able to inspire give people a sense of purpose or belonging that has little to do with any external incentive or benefit to be gained. Those who truly lead are able to create a following of people who act not because they were swayed, but because they were inspired. For those who are inspired, the motivation to act is deeply personal. They are less likely to be swayed by incentives. Those who are inspired are willing to pay a premium or endure inconvenience, even personal suffering. Those who are able to inspire will create a following of people — supporters, voters, customers, workers — who act for the good of the whole not because they have to, but because they want to.

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

"A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)