Boss And Leader Quotes

Boss And Leader Quotes by Harry Gordon Selfridge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, Tom Peters, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Jarvik and many others.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says ‘I’; The leader says ‘We’.
Harry Gordon Selfridge
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
Tom Peters
The boss drives people; The leader coaches them.
Harry Gordon Selfridge
The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Robert Jarvik
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates
Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.
Margaret Heffernan
The boss says ‘Go’; the leader says ‘Let’s go!’
Harry Gordon Selfridge
In the past a leader was a boss. Today‘s leaders must be partners with their people… they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Ken Blanchard
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Woodrow Wilson
The boss says ‘I’; the leader, ‘we’.
Harry Gordon Selfridge
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
A leader leads by example not by force.
Sun Tzu
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let’s go!
George E. M. Kelly
Nothing so conclusively proves a man‘s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Witter Bynner
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost