Quotes and sayings about Leadership

"Manager solves problems, leader prevents them"

"Leaders manage change. Managers control process"

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better"

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

"Lead, follow or get out of the way"

"When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others."

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

"The best example of leadership, is leadership by example"

"Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations"

"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn’t go by yourself"

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other"

"Leadership is influence"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him… .But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, “We did it ourselves"

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus"

"A leader is a dealer in hope"

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

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

"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group"

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

"Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system"

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower"

"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader"

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives"