Quotes About Leadership

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

Management must have a purpose, a dedication and that dedication must have an emotional commitment. It must be built in as a vital part of the personality of anyone who truly is a manager.

Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think, as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.