Funny leadership quotes are meant to turn things around and cheer you up. As a leader, you need high emotional intelligence to read through situations and offer the right response effectively. You may need to respond to some cases by adding a touch of humor.
Not all quotes about Leadership have to be serious. Funny quotes can also inspire us and help us become more adept leaders. Or, maybe you’re just looking for a quote to spice up your presentation and make people laugh. Well, you’ve come to the right place.
We scoured books and online for the best funny leadership quotes, and here are our top 50. Enjoy
1. 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
2. I’m a leader, not a follower. Unless it’s a dark place, then you are going first.
Unknown
3. It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai Stevenson
4. The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
5. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Thomas Sowell
6. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t!
Margaret Thatcher
7. Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
John Naisbitt
8. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower
9. You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
10. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
George Carlin
11. Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others.
Lao tzu
12. In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
Tina Fey
13. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama
14. Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
15. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower
16. The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Robert Bloch
17. I’m a leader not a follower. Unless it’s a dark place, then you are going first.
Unknown
18. There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
Alexandre Ledru
19. When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy.
Dave Barry
20. Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S Patton
21. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Thomas Sowell
22. A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow
23. A good manager is a person who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.
H. S. M. Burns
24. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli
25. The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casy Stengel
26. Being a servant leader doesn’t mean being a wimp. It means empowering others to take responsibility.
Dr. Ivan Misner
27. First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.
A Bug’s Life
28. Don’t be a good leader, be a poor person’s best friend.
Tom Peters
29. The least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don’t want doing actual work.
Scott Adams
30. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
31. The only real training for leadership is leadership.
Anthony Jay
32. Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system.
Stephen R. Covey
33. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Patton
34. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
35. The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
36. There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
37. You miss 100 percent of the chances you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky
38. Who says exactly what they’re thinking? What kind of a game is that?
Kelly Kapoor
39. I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.
Michael Scott
40. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mohandas K. Ghandi
41. The only real training for leadership is leadership.
Anthony Jay
42. A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice
James Callaghan
43. The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Robert Bloch
44. People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov
45. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
46. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.
-Herbert Bayard Swope
47. Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.
Laozi
48. The only real training for leadership is leadership.
Antony Jay
49. There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
50. The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
51. “The question, ‘Who ought to be boss?’, is like asking, ‘Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.”
Henry Ford
52. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”
Casey Stengel
53. “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai Stevenson
54. “When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy.”
Dave Barry
55. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Dwight Eisenhower
56. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
57. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.”
Dwight Eisenhower
58. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
Theodore Roosevelt
59. “First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.”
A Bug’s Life
60. “Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”
Lewis Grizzard
61. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
Theodore M. Hesburgh
62. “Always drink upstream from the herd.”
Will Rogers
63. “Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.”
Robert Half
64. “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
65. “When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.”
Guy Kawasaki
66. “It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead — and find no one there.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
67. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”
Casey Stengel
68. “There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.”
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
69. “The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.”
Elaine Agather
70. “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai Stevenson
71. “I’m a leader, not a follower. Unless it’s a dark place; then you are going first.”
Unknown
72. “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”
Malcolm Muggeridge
73. “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”
Robert Bloch
74. “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. “
Robert Bloch
75. “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”
Ronald Reagan
76. “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat. Ronald Reagan.”
Dave Barry
77. “I’m a leader, not a follower. Unless it’s a dark place, then you are going first.”
Unknown
78. “Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others.”
Lao Tzu
79. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”
Casey Stengel
80. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
George S. Patton
81. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
Lily Tomlin
82. “If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.”
Steven Wright
83. “I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx
84. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
Mark Twain
85. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
Yogi Berra
86. “There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.”
Kyle Chandler
88. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
Charles Schulz
89. “A good manager is one who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.”
Harold S. Geneen
90. “I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
Benjamin Disraeli
91.“Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.”
Robert Half
92. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.”
Lily Tomlin
93 “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
Winnie the Pooh
94. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
Dalai Lama
95. “Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.”
Billie Burke
96. “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
Robin Williams
97. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible!”
Audrey Hepburn
98. “The best things in life are actually really expensive.”
Unknown
99. “A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.”
Justin Sewell
100. “The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts.”
Unknown
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