Leader Versus Boss Quotes

#1. Be a leader with a ladder, not a boss with an order.

Debasish Mridha

#2. A saint or monk can afford to be compassionate to all, but a leader or boss cannot always be kind. He may soon be without a job himself if he is unduly compassionate, and chances are, no one would show him any compassion then.

Awdhesh Singh

#3. Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

Dave Ramsey

#4. Boss may be one, but leader can be anyone!

Ameya Agrawal

#5. The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#6. That didn't stop the world from ending, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.

Wayne Mack

#8. All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. One thing I incorporated in my novel 'The Poe Shadow' was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him.

Matthew Pearl

#10. As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.

Laurie Beth Jones

#11. When a leader replaces the value of selfless service with selfish ambition they have officially regressed back into a boss.

Noel DeJesus

#12. To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.

David Niu

#13. A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

Vicente Del Bosque

#14. The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#15. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says 'I'; The leader says 'We'.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#16. The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.

Malcolm Goodwin

#17. A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

Criss Jami

#18. Be the leader, not the boss.

Debasish Mridha

#19. She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He's a religion for non-believers.

Carla H. Krueger

#20. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

#21. Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

Ameya Agrawal

#22. The ideal boss for a growing leader is probably a good boss with major flaws, so that one can learn all the complex lessons of what to do and what not to do simultaneously.

Warren G. Bennis

#23. Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

Aminu Kano

#24. 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

#25. I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.

Thomas Huxley

#26. If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.

T.F. Hodge

#27. The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

John Dewey

#28. A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

Ronald Reagan

#29. A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

Jaha Knight

#30. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Patrick Ness

#31. An ordinary supervisor is a boss. A Super Supervisor is a leader. People avoid bosses, they follow leaders.

Mildred Ramsey

#32. Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

George E. M. Kelly

#33. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S. Truman