Sam Allardyce Quotes

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

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.

As a manager, it's the same as a player: I want to see how far I can get.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

To manage is to decide the team, the substitutions, and everything until the end.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

The main thing I wanted was to manage.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

Management is different from leadership..

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'