Management and Leadership Quotes

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker

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

Never . . . Never . . . Never . . . Never Give up! - Winston Churchill

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
St. Augustine

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh

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.
Lao-Tzu

We will either find a way or make one.
Hannibal

What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Sophocles

The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford

Leaders are like eagles. They don't flock, you find one at a time.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The Bible

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
John Welch