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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Sep 29, 2025
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
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.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
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.
The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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