James Hunter Quotes

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

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.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL

A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

INTENTIONS - ACTION = SQUAT

we must never forget that people buy into the leader before they buy into a mission statement.

...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

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

You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.

It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.

Leadership is character in action.

For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'

A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.

I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent.

If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!"

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

I get influenced by stuff that isn't even music.

It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.