Leadership Vs Management Quotes:

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Inspirational, Leader, Leadership Vs Management

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

- Peter Drucker

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

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

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

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

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

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Inspirational, Encouragement, Leader, Leadership And Management, Leadership Vs Management

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

- Jack Welch

source: Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Leadership, Leader, Growing, Innovative Leadership, Workforce

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

topic: Leadership, Leader, Leadership And Management, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership Development

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Life, Leadership, Insperational, Top Management, Put First Things First

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Leadership, Sight, Personality, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, People, Leadership Skills, Leadership Vs Management

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.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom, Managing People, Funny Leadership

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

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Graduation, True Leader, Funny Leadership

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Views, Perspective, Long, Leadership Vs Management

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

- Laozi

topic: Leadership, People, Good Man, Leadership Courage, Leadership Training

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, True Leader, Funny Leadership

Leaders are not born, they're made.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Leadership, Discipline, Effort, True Leader, Sports Leadership

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

- Witter Bynner

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

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Personality, Normal, Building, True Leader, Leadership And Change