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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
Sep 30, 2025
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.
The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.
I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'
This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.
Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.
My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
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.
If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.
To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Dave Stark has taken the best of recent marketplace management concepts and married them to timeless biblical principles of leadership, translating business jargon into ministry language. The combination is an encouraging and practical guide to Christ-centered ministry leadership. This book will be helpful to anyone involved in leading a church or serious about modeling servant leadership.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
Good leaders must first become good servants.
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?
I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered, he or she will develop moral authority. If the follower is principle centered, he or she will follow the leader. In this sense, both leaders and followers are followers. Why? They follow truth. They follow natural law. They follow principles. They follow a common, agreed-upon vision. They share values. They grow to trust one another.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.
Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.