Boss And Leader Quotes:

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

- Tom Peters

topic: Leadership, Business, Insperational, Leadership And Management, Leadership Skills

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO!

- Harry Gordon Selfridge

topic: Leadership, Letting Go, People, Subordination, Good Will

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

- John C. Maxwell

source: John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Leader, Boss, Inspire, Boss And Leader

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

- John C. Maxwell

source: "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Young Entrepreneurs, True Leader

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

- George E. M. Kelly

topic: Business, Differences, Leader, Funny Leadership, Spiritual Leader

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.

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Leadership, Power, Past, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Servant Leadership

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

- George S. Patton

source: "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Differences, People, Management Motivation, Innovation And Leadership

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

- Bill Gates

topic: Business Life, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiring Business, Inspiration To Others, Inspiring Leader

A leader leads by example not by force.

- Sun Tzu

source: "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter IX), 2003.

topic: Army, Leader, Example, Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2

The boss says 'Go'; the leader says 'Let's go!'

- Harry Gordon Selfridge

topic: Leader, Boss, Boss And Leader

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Business, Managing People, Innovation And Leadership

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

- Gene Mauch

topic: Business, Gone, Good Boss, Boss And Leader

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership, True Leader, Innovation And Leadership

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

topic: Leadership, Patriotic, Voice, Listening To Others, Listening Ear

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

topic: Leadership, Boss, Outstanding Leaders, Leaders Motivational, Leadership Training

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

- Thomas J. Watson

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Business, Leading On, Good Leader

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

- Robert Frost

topic: Funny, Motivational, Hilarious, Funny Leadership, Professional Career

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

- Henry Miller

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Business, Lead Characters, Leadership Courage

The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.

- Harry Gordon Selfridge

topic: Leader, Boss, Boss And Leader

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

- Margaret Heffernan

topic: Data, People, Leader, Boss And Leader

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

- Rudy Giuliani

source: 2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

topic: Leadership, Vision, Needs, Leadership And Vision, Leadership Vision

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

- Witter Bynner

topic: People, Boss, Leader, Managing People, Funny Leadership

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

- Robert Jarvik

source: "At theNAT, building a family". Interview with Lisa Deaderick, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 4, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Fear, Leadership And Vision, Leadership Vision

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

- Harry Gordon Selfridge

topic: Leader, Boss, Authority, Boss And Leader