On Becoming a Leader Quotes

“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.”
― Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

“...once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals...”
― Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

“The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.”
― Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

“In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
― Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

“More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.”
― Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

“The first step in becoming a leader, then, is to recognize the context for what it is—a breaker, not a maker; a trap, not a launching pad; an end, not a beginning—and declare your independence.”
― Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

“The ideal boss for a growing leader is probably a good boss with major flaws, so that one can learn all the complex lessons of what to do and what not to do simultaneously.”
― Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

“First and foremost, find out what it is you’re about, and be that. Be what you are, and don’t lose it. . . . It’s very hard to be who we are, because it doesn’t seem to be what anyone wants.” But, of course, as Lear has demonstrated, it’s the only way to truly fly.”
― Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

“In 1989, the Internet’s 400 early adopters were predicting that it would revolutionize how people communicate,”
― Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

“Former Lucky Stores CEO Don Ritchey said that difficult bosses really “test your beliefs, and you learn all the things you don’t want to do or stand for. I”
― Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

“Satchel Paige is supposed to have said, “It’s not what you don’t know that hurts you, it’s what you know that just ain’t so”);”
― Warren G. Bennis, On Becoming a Leader