Best Boss And Leader Quotes & Sayings

For a team to succeed, responsibility must go down deep into the organization, down to the roots. Getting that to happen requires a leader who will delegate responsibility and authority to the team. Stephen Covey remarked, "People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work, because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses." Good leaders seldom restrict their teams; they release them. — John C. Maxwell

An ordinary supervisor is a boss. A Super Supervisor is a leader. People avoid bosses, they follow leaders. — Mildred Ramsey

Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on. — John C. Maxwell

Be a leader with a ladder, not a boss with an order. — Debasish Mridha

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO! — Harry Gordon Selfridge

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people ... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. — Ken Blanchard

Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone. — Ameya Agrawal

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve. — Aminu Kano

A saint or monk can afford to be compassionate to all, but a leader or boss cannot always be kind. He may soon be without a job himself if he is unduly compassionate, and chances are, no one would show him any compassion then. — Awdhesh Singh

When a leader replaces the value of selfless service with selfish ambition they have officially regressed back into a boss. — Noel DeJesus

A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it. — Jaha Knight

The leader of another crack gang once told Venkatesh that he could easily afford to pay his foot soldiers more, but it wouldn't be prudent. "You got all these niggers below you who want your job, you dig?" he said. "So, you know, you try to take care of them, but you know, you also have to show them you the boss. You always have to get yours first, or else you really ain't no leader. If you start taking losses, they see you as weak and shit. — Steven D. Levitt

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says 'I'; The leader says 'We'. — Harry Gordon Selfridge

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

She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He's a religion for non-believers. — Carla H. Krueger