Countless books have been written on the art of leadership and management. Billions of dollars have been spent by students pursuing college degrees in management. However, we believe that the heart of good leadership and management can be found in the quotes below. Enjoy these amazing leadership and management quotes and please feel free to leave any that you think we missed in the comments!
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
"Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to."
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
"Don't hire a copycat of yourself. Look for people whose skills are the opposite of yours. Dare to emphasize your weaknesses."
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
"Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people."
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
"The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t."
"Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet"
"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
"What gets measured, gets managed."
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
"If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands."
"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
"Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to."
Richard Branson
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
Warren Buffet
"Don’t hire a copycat of yourself. Look for people whose skills are the opposite of yours. Dare to emphasize your weaknesses."
Diane Janknegt
"Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people."
Brian Tracy
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
Sun Tzu
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Dwight D Eisenhower
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm"
Publilius Syrus
"What gets measured, gets managed."
Peter Drucker
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
Dwight D Eisenhower
"If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands."
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."
Aristotle
"Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet"
Henry Mintzberg
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
Publilius Syrus
"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
John D Rockefeller
"The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t."
Anthea Turner
