Quotes On Management and Leadership

The purpose of this page is to supply you with useful, meaningful quotes.  Sure you can do a web search and find thousands of quotes, but my hope is that you will turn to the Key Pointe site and this page because you find these quotes to be selective.  They will inspire you and your staff, help to add some energy into your next presentation and because you can trust them to be impactful.  My desire is to have you send in quotes that you would like to share with others as well.  So rather than heading for a search engine check here first.  If you don’t find what you are looking for, check back,  this page is designed to move you and others into action!

 

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nadar

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy

“Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organisation and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable. “- Claude Taylor

“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.” -Woodrow Wilson

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” -Mahatma Gandhi  

“Catch someone doing something right.”  Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.” — Ronald Reagan

“Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.” — Peter Drucker

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”— Marcus Aurelius

“We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.” — Harold J. Leavitt

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” — Stephen R. Covey

“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it . . . ; Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.” — David Ogilvy

“When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.” — John W. Gardner

“The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.” — Casey Stengel

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” – John Le Caré

“I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.” — Thomas J. Watson, Jr. A Business and its Beliefs (1963)

“Focus on a few key objectives … I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I’m really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.”  — Jack Welch

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”— Peter Drucker

“Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.”— Henry Mintzberg McGill University

“If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.”— R Buckminster Fuller

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”— Agha Hasan Abedi