Warren G. Bennis Quotes
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: People, Will)
"You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: People, Future)
"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Trust, Work)
"There is a profound difference between information and meaning."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Difference, Information, Meaning)
"Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: People, Leaders, Managers, Right)
"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Leadership, People, Fact, Myth, Nonsense)
"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: People, Heart, Leaders)
"People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: People, Ideas, Content)
"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Eyes, Leaders)
"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Music, Dance, Leaders)
"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Dance, Being, Environment)
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Leadership, Vision, Reality)
"The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Manager, Leader, Perspective)
"Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Life, Learning)
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Employees, Future, Man, Will)
"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Manager, Leader)
"The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Manager, Leader)
"Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Leader)
"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: Excellence, Mediocrity)
"Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led."
- Warren G. Bennis