Leadership Quotes

"In the selection of people for positions, character is more important than mere technical skill."

"A leader's responsibility extends beyond profits to the welfare of those who work."

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge."

"A true leader lifts others as he climbs."

"True leadership emerges when a manager knows the lives of those he manages."

"The supervisor who listens learns more than the supervisor who commands."

"Organizations are living organisms, not machines."

"To manage well is to understand what drives human behavior."

"The human element in business is not a cost to be minimized, but a resource to be maximized."

"Management is the art of bringing out the best in people."

"The modern manager must be part social scientist, part practical realist."

"The worker's complaint often contains the seeds of organizational improvement."

"The measure of management is what happens when the manager is absent."

"To manage is to serve those you are charged with leading."

"The modern supervisor must be student, teacher, and guide simultaneously."

"Management without empathy is merely coercion with a nicer face."

"The strongest foundation for any organization is built on mutual respect."

"The voice of the worker, when listened to, often contains solutions to seemingly intractable problems."

"The future belongs to organizations that see workers as people first, resources second."

"To improve production, first improve the conditions of those who produce."

"The synthesis of management science and human understanding creates true leadership."

"Every worker contains potential that poor management will never discover."

"The foundation of good management is good observation."

"Where workers are seen as problems to be managed, organizations decline; where they are seen as people to be understood, they flourish."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

"I believe that the responsibility for loss of life lies with the commander who has not provided the best system he possibly can."

"To be successful, think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."

"Leadership is the ability to get others to want to do what you think should be done."