Stephen Covey Quotes

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

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Leaders determine the level of an organization.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

A leader gets things done.

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

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

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

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

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.

My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.