Leadership depends on the ability to make people want to follow voluntarily.
Authority does not make you a leader; it gives you the opportunity to be one.
Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior work.
You cannot lead anyone farther than you have gone yourself.
The problem of being a leader is to tell if the people are following or chasing you.
A conference room is a place where everybody talks, nobody listens, and everyone disagrees afterwards.
A good boss is a guy who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
One is not qualified to give orders until he is capable of receiving orders.
Master concentration and you can master anything.
Action is the only true test of ability.
Be your own efficiency expert by doing your job the best way it can be done.
Good leaders never set themselves above their fellows—except in carrying out responsibilities.
An executive is one who hires others to do what he is hired to do.
The difference between promised ideas and productive results is a good manager.
A good leader inspires others with confidence in him—a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.
A boss is a person who is always early when you’re late and late when you are early.
Concentrating attention on one thing at a time is still the best way to get things done.
A good leader not only knows where he is going, but he can persuade other people to go along with him.
Learn self-control before attempting to control others.
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be—not what you nag them to be.
The best investment you can make as a leader is hard work.
You cannot teach something you don’t know. After all, you cannot come back from where you haven’t been.
Note to the bosses: A pleasant word will get more results than extra pay.
Authority can never take the place of leadership.
Effective teachers find a way; others find excuses.
It is easier to follow the leader than to lead the followers.
You have won others when you cause them to share the goals, problems, and rewards.
Make people feel they are working with you—not for you—and you will get far more out of them.
Two kinds of men who never succeed: one cannot do what he is told; the other cannot do anything unless he is told.
Be an individualist—one who follows another is always behind.
Sunday school teachers, to be prepared, must be pre-prayered.
A leader is not someone who leads unless he has followed.