Thomas Sowell Quotes

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

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

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

I don't have the temperament of being a director.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

I think I can run a team pretty well.

My job as a manager is to get the best out of your players. Sometimes you get it wrong, and you won't get the response that you want, but we all face that every single day.

Management is prediction.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

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.

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.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

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.

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