Warren Bennis Quotes

I've always tried to be a leader.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

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

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

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

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.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

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

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.'

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

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

You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody.

I'm a leader.

What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.