W. Edwards Deming Quotes

Education is the mother of leadership.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

We lead by influence. That is what good leadership is about.

There is only one way to respond to the issue of leadership and that is to lead.

Leadership doesn't amount to much unless you have followers.