This document contains quotes about management and leadership from various authors such as John Kotter, Stephen Covey, John Maxwell, Peter Drucker, Dwight Eisenhower, and Nicolas Murray Butler. The quotes discuss topics such as the roles and responsibilities of leaders in establishing vision, strategy, and direction for an organization. They also discuss the importance of teamwork, commitment to objectives, and leadership being defined by results rather than attributes.

1. Management
Quotes
Management
Quotes
Cooperative Management & Governance Seminar
Nueva Segovia Consortium of Cooperative
Caoayan, Ilocos Sur
October 5-7, 2011

2. “Leaders establish the
vision for the future
and set the strategy for
getting there; they
cause change. They
motivate and inspire
others to go in the
right direction and
they, along with
everyone else, sacrifice
to get there.”
John Kotter

3. Management is
efficiency in climbing
the ladder of success;
Leadership
determines whether
the ladder is leaning
or against the right
wall
Stephen R. Covey

4. “It has been said that people
can be placed
In three classes,
the MANY who watch things
happen classes;
the FEW who makes things
happen and
The OVERWHELMING
MAJORITY
who have no idea what has
happened.”
Nicolas Murray Butler

5.  Personnel determine the
potential of the organization
 Relationship determine the
morale of the organization
 Structure determines the
size of the organization
 Vision determines the
direction of the organization
 Leadership determines the
success of the organization
John C. Maxwell

6. Pull the string
and it will follow
whatever you
wish it to go and
release, it will go
nowhere else at
all
Dwight D. Eisenhower

7. “Objectives are not fate;
they are direction. They
are not commands; they
are commitments. They
do not determine the
future; they are means to
mobilize the resources
and energies of the
business for the making
of the future.”
Peter F. Drucker

8. “One is too small of a number
to achieve greatness. Team
work makes the dream work.”
Team building is essential to
get significant success in
leadership., “The only way to
compound your vision and go
from „me‟ to „we‟ is by
getting the people to buy into
the dream.
John Maxwell

9. Effective leadership
is not about making
speech or being
liked, leadership is
defined by results
and not by
attributes
Peter F. Drucker

10. Leadership is
like swimming.
It cannot be
learned by
reading about
it.
Henry Mintzberg

11. “Teachers
open the door
but you must
enter
yourself”
Chinese proverb

18. Reference:
Bhuspesh Shah
on Leadership
discussion