88 Quotes About Leadership-vs-management

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.