Inspiring Management Quotes:

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

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Success Failure

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

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Business, Management Motivation, Funny Leadership

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Positive, Daily Work, Social Entrepreneurship

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake, Management Motivation, Managing People

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Change, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

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

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, True Leader

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Top Management, True Leader

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

- Walter Lippmann

topic: Inspirational, Change, Success, Top Management, Funny Leadership

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Ambition, Men, Progress, Social Progress, Man And Superman

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence, Put First Things First, True Leader

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

- Marian Diamond

topic: Change, Workout, Emotional, Young Entrepreneurs, Disruption

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Positive, Dream, Limits, About Success, Inner Growth

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

- Henry Mintzberg

topic: Change, Art, Practice, Top Management, Inspiring Management

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

topic: Life, Motivational, Change, Social Progress, Man And Superman

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

- Grace Hopper

source: "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

topic: People, Management, Overboard, Managing People, Inspiring Leader

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Change, Management Motivation, Business Life

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Business, Educational, Solved Problems, Inspiring Management