Servant Leadership Quotations

I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'

It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors.

This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.

Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most.

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.