Thomas E. Dewey Quotes

Just because you're the coach, you don't automatically have the authority. You have to work the people. You have to gain the trust of the people.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Leadership is influence.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

It isn't worth trying to lead if your people won't follow.

Leadership and partnership go together.

Leaders don’t boss. Not if they’re any good. They persuade. America needs a whole lot more persuading and a lot less bossing.

I'm a leader.

Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.

I always say, as a leader, you've got to know when to get out of the way.

When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

I like being a leader in real life.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.... The leader works in the open, and the boss is covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives

We lead by influence. That is what good leadership is about.