Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

Part of politics is redundancy. You’ve got to say the same thing over and over even if you get tired of it…not everyone has heard it.

In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

A word after a word after a word is power.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.

France will be heeded if it has a message to convey.

Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.

[Woodrow Wilson] could state a principle better than the expert from whom he had borrowed it.

If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame.

Power comes through public persuasion.

People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you're listening to is saying the right stuff, and that's all that really counts.

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

Most great leaders are also great communicators. Great leaders have learned how to persuade so their objectives can be reached. The most powerful device to persuade is story. Stating facts and figures is not memorable. Emotionally connecting your audience to your idea through story will move them.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.

Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

A leader must listen to those under their supervision.