Warren Bennis Quotes

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

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.

Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

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

I think being able to have follow-through, I think a lot of people who are in charge, that is the one quality that you can't forsake. You can get opinions, but you can't have too many cooks in the kitchen when you're envisioning something.

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.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

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

I've put a lot of thought into being a leader.

Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

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.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.