Leadership, Management

"A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: ‘Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.’"
Max DePree

"A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless—someone's got to make a wake up call."
Warren Bennis

"The best example of leadership, is leadership by example."
Jerry McClain

"To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."
Russell L. Ackoff

"A team is more than a collection of people.
It is a process of give and take."
Barbara Glacel, Emile Robert Jr.

"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

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

"The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller

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

"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."
Tony Blair

"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done."
Peter Drucker

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

"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."
Marian Anderson

"Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust."
Dennis Kinlaw

"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."
Lao Tzu

"Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently."
John G. Vance

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
Henry Kissinger

"To lead the people, walk behind them."
Lao Tzu

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
Walter Lippmann