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Keep your serious quotes aside, we are going to discuss Funny leadership quotes here.
Funny leadership quotes: When you are starting a new business as a leader or have been a leader for a while, people feel the need to throw advice your way whenever given the chance. And yes, said advice may be beneficial most times but other times it’s just repetitive and tedious. Therefore, I have incorporated a list of funny leadership quotes that will give you advice and a good laugh at the same time:
- “The old adage ‘people are our greatest asset’ is wrong; ‘the right people are your greatest asset’ is more accurate.”
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Jim Collins
- “Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t.”
Tina Fey
- “The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.”
Henry Ford
- “Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead — and find no one there.”
Franklin Roosevelt
- “In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”
Tina Fey- Funny leadership quotes
- “It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
Douglas Adams
- “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
Indira Gandhi
- “Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”
Sloan Wilson
- “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
- “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
George S. Patton
- “Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.”
Ellen Degeneres
- “But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
Carl Sagan
- “When I talk to managers, I get the feeling that they are important. When I talk to leaders, I get the feeling that I am important.”
Alexander den Heijer
- A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.