Frases sobre Administração e Liderança

“Se um cego guia outro cego, ambos cairão no buraco.”
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch.
~ Jesus Christ

“Uma vida imprópria eficazmente abafará a voz do mais eloquente ministro.”
An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.
~ Charles Spurgeon

“Grandes necessidades demandam grandes líderes”
Great necessities call forth great leaders.
~ Abigail Adams

“Hoje um leitor, amanhã um líder.”
Today a reader–tomorrow a leader.
~ W. Fusselman

“Ao olharmos adiante para o próximo século, líderes serão aqueles que empoderam outros.”
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
~ Bill Gates

“Um bom general não apenas visualiza o caminho da vitória, mas também quando a vitória é impossível.”
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
~ Polybius

“Se suas ações inspiram outros a sonharem alto, aprenderem, fazerem e serem mais, você é um líder.”
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~ John Quincy Adams

“O instinto de liderança com o qual você nasce é a espinha dorsal. Você desenvolve o cotovelo (ou senso de humor) e o ossinho da sorte (osso do peito) que vão com ele.
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
~ Elaine Agather

“Nós ainda pensamos em um homem poderoso como um líder nato, e uma mulher poderosa como uma anomalia”
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
~ Margaret Atwood

“Quando um problema aparece, e a situação não está boa, sempre há alguém que percebe uma solução e deseja tomar o comando. Geralmente, essa pessoa é louca.”
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy.
~ Dave Barry

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
~ Warren G. Bennis

Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.
~ Warren Bennis, in On Becoming A Leader

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
~ Tony Blair

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
~ John Buchan

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn’t mean he has to be consistent.
~ James Callahan, English Prime Minister, in Harvard Business Review, November/December 1986
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
~ Rosalyn Carter

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
~ Stephen Covey

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

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
~ Charles de Gaulle

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
~ Charles de Gaulle

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.
~ Max DePree, in Leadership Is An Art

Never try to teach a pig to sing: it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
~ Paul Dickson

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
~ Benjamin Disraeli

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
~ Peter Drucker

Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”, that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
~ Peter F. Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
~ Peter F. Drucker

A fish always rots from the head down.
~ Michael Dukakis

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
~ Dwight Eisenhower

You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quem metuunt oderunt, quem quisque odit periise expetit. [Whom men fear, they hate; whom a man hates he wishes dead.
~ Quintus Ennius, in Ex fabulis incertis

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
~ Harvey S. Firestone

Who has not served cannot command.
~ John Florio

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith, in The Age of Uncertainty

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
~ John W. Gardner

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
~ David Gergen
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
~ Rudy Giuliani

Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone’s following you.
~ Henry Gilmer

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can be and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.
~ Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.
~ Robert K. Greenleaf

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
~ Robert Half

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
~ Theodore M. Hesburgh

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
~ Matthew Heywood

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
~ Kenneth Hildebrand

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers.
~ Dee Hock

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
~ Eric Hoffer

If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
~ Admiral Grace Hopper

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
~ Elbert Hubbard

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
~ Lee Iacocca

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
~ Henry Kissinger

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
~ Tom Landry

The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership.
~ Jim Loehr

To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, “We did it ourselves!”
~ Lao Tzu

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
~ Lao Tzu

To lead the people, walk behind them.
~ Lao Tzu

Leaders don’t force people to follow—they invite them on a journey.
~ Charles S. Lauer

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
~ John Le Care’

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so that I can lead them.
~ Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
~ Liu Shao-chi

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
~ Walter Lippmann

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and willpower in the character.
~ Vince Lombardi

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
~ Vince Lombardi

In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
~ Henry W. Longfellow

You don’t have to be brilliant to be a good leader. But you do have to understand other people – how they feel, what makes them tick, and the best way to influence them. There are a lot of brilliant people in this world who are, and will remain, ineffective leaders. Why? Because they are so interested in themselves and their own accomplishments that they never get around to appreciating and understanding the feelings of the other people who are sharing this world with them. Sometimes, usually later in life, these talented, egocentric individuals suffer painful hardships. They understand, often for the first time, the kind of problems less talented or less fortunate people have suffered all their lives. They suddenly discover a new and important dimension: sensitivity to the feelings, emotions, and experiences of other people. Effective leaders don’t wait for life to bring them to their knees before they appreciate the kind of problems others are facing. Instead they constantly try to put themselves in others’ shoes – try to imagine how they would feel in the same circumstances. They are constantly aware of what makes others tick, and try to be helpful at the same time they ask others to help them.
~ John Luther

There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
~ David Mahoney

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
~ Fred A. Manske, Jr.

Command doth make actors of us all.
~ John Masters, in The Road Past Mandalay

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
~ John Maxwell

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
~ John Maxwell

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
~ John Maxwell

All Leadership is influence.
~ John C. Maxwell

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.
~ John C Maxwell, in The 17 Irrefutable Laws of Teamwork

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Harold R. McAlindon
Great leaders instill a surging sense of purpose, articulate a clear vision, engage talent, purposefully plan, diligently execute and abundantly communicate. At its essence, leadersip is about optimizing people and their potential to advance a cause.
~ Kelly McDermott
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
~ H.L. Mencken
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
~ Henry Mintzberg, in The Nature of Managerial Work
No prophet has been raised up who has not performed the work of a shepherd.
~ Mohammed
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
~ General Montgomery
A leader is a man who makes decisions. Sometimes they turn out right and sometimes then turn out wrong; but either way, he makes them.
~ Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., in Leaders are Made . . . Not Born, Leadership in the Office
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers
~ Ralph Nader

A leader is a dealer in hope.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The good teacher … discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.
~ Stephen Neill

High sentiments always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
~ George Orwell
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
~ General George S. Patton
Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader.
~ General George S. Patton Jr.
Leadership skills can be developed, but the right to lead is earned.
~ Earl Peck
People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
~ H. Ross Perot

“Águias não andam em bandos”
Eagles don’t flock.
~ Ross Perot

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~ General Colin Powell

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~ Colin Powell

The view only changes for the lead dog.
~ Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
~ Chinese proverb

Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water every ship has a good captain.
~ Swedish proverb

The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows.
~ Clarence Randall

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.
~ Ronald Reagan

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
~ Admiral Hyman Rickover

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
~ Jim Rohn

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well do even better.
~ Jim Rohn

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead — and find on one there.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
~ Charles Schwab

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
~ Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it is the only thing.
~ Albert Schweitzer

Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.
~ Lance Secretan, in Industry Week, 10/12/98

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
~ Seneca

What you cannot enforce
Do not command.
~ Sophocles

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
~ Edmund Spenser

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
~ Casey Stengel

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
~ Publius Syrus

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
~ Margaret Thatcher

The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
~ Henry David Thoreau

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out and meet it.
~ Thucydides

Become the kind of person that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.
~ Brian Tracy

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
~ Plaque on Ted Turner’s desk

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!
~ Mark Twain

Communicate everything to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
~ Sam Walton

Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.
~ George Washington, in a letter to Colonel William Woodford, November 10, 1775

Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
~ Thomas J. Watson Sr.

One word of command from me is obeyed by millions but I cannot get my three daughters, Pamela, Felicity, and Joan, to come down to breakfast on time.
~ Field Marshal Archibald Wavell, Viceroy of India

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
~ Jack Welch

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
~ W. Wilcox

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
~ Woodrow Wilson

Fonte: Kevin Stilley