The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
Warren G. Bennis

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
Warren G. Bennis

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Warren G. Bennis

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Warren G. Bennis

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Woodrow Wilson

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
Mary Kay Ash

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Albert Camus

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
Paul McCartney

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Richard M. Nixon

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
Richard M. Nixon

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
Richard M. Nixon

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
Robert Baden-Powell

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

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch

Fish recognize a bad leader.
Conan O'Brien

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams