Quotes on Leadership Vs Management

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

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

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.

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

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

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.