Warren Bennis Quotes

10 quotes from Warren Bennis on entrepreneurship.

• Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.

• Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

• Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality.

• Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

• I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

• Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leadersare made rather than born.

• If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

• It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.