Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Warren G. Bennis

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren G. Bennis

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Warren G. Bennis

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
Warren G. Bennis

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren G. Bennis

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Warren G. Bennis