Funny Quotations About Leadership

• Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system. - Stephen R. Covey
• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George Patton
• Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. - Warren Bennis
• The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
• It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. - Adlai Stevenson
• When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. - Dave Barry
• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight Eisenhower
• If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you. - Don Marquis
• Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. - John Naisbitt
• Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight Eisenhower
• You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. - Boris Yeltsin
• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - James Crook
• Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women. - Groucho Marx
• Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. - Robert Half
• Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus
• Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard
• It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. - Theodore Roosevelt
• One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority. - Napoleon Bonaparte
• Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. - Malcolm Muggeridge
• By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean. - Mark Twain
• I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. - Talleyrand
• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves. - Lao-Tzu
• The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. - Henry Ford
• 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