Quotes About Leader Vs Manager

#1. Being a person that others can trust is one of the most sought after qualities in the workplace today. So many leaders and their staff have shown in the recent global financial crisis a lack of trust and integrity amongst themselves and with their clients and other stakeholders.

Nigel Cumberland

#2. Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?

John Baldoni

#3. No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited.

Tom Northup

#4. The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Brian Tracy

#5. A leader takes things personally. A manager sees things as "just business".

Jim Korkis

#6. Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Warren Bennis

#8. A digital-ready CIO is a visionary and transformational leader, not just a transactional manager, for the long term.

Pearl Zhu

#9. The tough choice facing CIOs is not about only picking one identity as either being strategic or tactical, but about - when acting as a strategic leader, when playing as a tactical manager.

Pearl Zhu

#10. A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Mike Huckabee

#11. First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader.

Carsten K. Rath

#12. The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

George Clooney

#13. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Warren Bennis

#14. Amongst many qualities of a true leader, he is a successful manager who has mastered the art of people management.

Rehan Waris

#15. When it comes to busines ... I mean your business. Always remember you are the leader of your businesnot the Manager. You are the inspiration of your organization, you are the core that moves your business forward ... and this is your added value as a business owner.

Sameh Elsayed

#16. A traditional project manager focuses on following the plan with minimal changes, whereas an agile leader focuses on adapting successfully to inevitable changes.

Jim Highsmith

#17. It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Zig Ziglar

#18. Leaders fight for freedom of action. Managers struggle to understand the rules and staying in their parameters.

Elena D. Calin

#19. Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.

John C. Maxwell

#20. I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

Evan Spiegel

#21. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.

Eraldo Banovac

#22. Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.

Ogwo David Emenike

#23. Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.

Orrin Woodward

#24. The replacement of corporate heads is far more motivated by the need to bring in someone who is not invested in the past than to get somebody who is a better manager or a better leader in other ways.

Andrew S. Grove

#25. The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

Warren G. Bennis

#26. A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

Orrin Woodward

#27. If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.

Peter Senge

#28. The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.

Elena D. Calin

#29. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Warren Bennis

#30. The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Warren G. Bennis

#31. To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.

Howard Schultz

#32. A manager says 'go,' but a leader says 'let's go'.

John C. Maxwell

#33. A leader gets people to do things they wouldn't do in their right minds. A manager tells him he spent too much money doing it.

William Peter Grasso

#34. There is no better manager than a natural born one.

Rossana Condoleo

#35. Which do you want to be: a proficient manager or a Leader of Character? The first creates compliant employees. The second leads committed followers!

Dave Anderson

#36. There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader.

Gert Van Mol