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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. -- Brian Tracy
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. -- Warren Bennis
The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim. -- George Clooney
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day. -- Zig Ziglar
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. -- Jeff Weiner
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers. -- Joseph Nye
Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all. -- Peter Singer
Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key challenge for managers today is to get beyond the surface of your colleagues. You might just find that you have introverts embedded within your organization who are natural-born leaders. -- Douglas Conant
A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor. -- Mike Huckabee
Manager solves problems, leader prevents them. -- Albert Einstein
The manager administers; the leader innovates. -- Warren G. Bennis
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. -- Warren Bennis
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. -- Warren Bennis
A manager says 'go,' but a leader says 'let's go'. -- John C. Maxwell
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing. -- Warren G. Bennis
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. -- Warren G. Bennis
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. -- Warren Bennis
Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader. -- Condoleezza Rice
There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader. -- Gert Van Mol
A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. -- Kenneth Adelman
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. -- Warren G. Bennis
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. -- Warren G. Bennis
The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted. -- Elena D. Calin
Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome? -- John Baldoni

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