David Michael Gregory Quotes

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.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership—not salesmanship

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

Leadership is influence.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

I'm a leader.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

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

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.