Ben Horowitz Quotes

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

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

Leadership is influence.

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

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

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.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

Management is different from leadership..

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

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

I can lead my team.

Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction, take up challenges which other people cannot do.

I've always tried to be a leader.

I think I can run a team pretty well.

When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

I'm a leader.

I know how to lead.