Management is not something that is confined to the corporate world. It is the very essence of leadership.

Leadership does not require a formal title. Indeed, the best titles are simply recognition of what one is already achieving. What’s more, leadership is not about lording one’s position over others, but about bringing out the best in people. It is about maximizing one’s effectiveness by motivating others to do their best.

Leading groups of people is as difficult as it is simple: One simply has to inspire others at all times. When one can get a handle on that, everything else comes naturally.

Strong leaders must know what they can’t do as much as knowing what they can. They must be willing to solicit both counsel and assistance from others whenever it makes the most sense. This wisdom of knowing when to sit down and let someone else take the reins is absolutely crucial for any leader worthy of his name.

We believe that the best leaders build people up, even when they criticize. The following quotes about leadership and management will doubtless get you thinking about how best to inspire others, how to get an entire team pulling in the right direction, and how to herd cats to achieve the unimaginable.

Quotes About Leadership and How To Be a Good Leader

 

Bill Bradley quote on management

 

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

– Bill Bradley

 

Ralph Nader quote on management

 

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

– Ralph Nader

 

Douglas MacArthur quote on management

“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.”

– Douglas MacArthur

 

Peter F. Drucker quote on management

 

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

– Peter F. Drucker

 

Diogenes quote on management

 

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

– Diogenes

 

Vince Lombardi quote on management

 

“Praise in public, criticize in private.”

– Vince Lombardi

 

T, Roosevelt quote on management

 

“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

 

R. Stevenson quote on management

 

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Ronald Raegan quote on management

 

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

– Ronald Reagan

 

Goethe quote on management

 

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

A. Carnegie quote on management

 

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Quotes About Teams and Managing Teams Effectively

Michael Crichton quote on management

“His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success – or the most to lose from failure.”

– Michael Crichton, Congo

 

Henry Ford quote on management

 

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

– Henry Ford

 

C. de Gaulle quote on management

 

“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”

– Charles de Gaulle

 

Unknown quote on management

 

“Inspect what you expect.”

– Unknown

 

Ronald Reagan quote on management

 

“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

 

John Rockefeller quote on management

 

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

– John D. Rockefeller

 

Anthea Turner quote on management

 

“The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t.”

– Anthea Turner

 

Eisenhower quote on management

 

“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Jack Welch quote on management

 

“Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.”

– Jack Welch