Ruth J. Simmons Quotes

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.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

I should have just become a manager.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

At the moment we need training for leadership.

I find nothing so painful as having to lead men.

I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.

But obviously captaincy is a long process. It takes its toll as time goes on.

When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice.

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

I'm someone who takes on information quite well, so there's maybe a path into management. But I see what successful managers have to go through to get to that level - it's a completely different ball game - so I think I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

Hopefully I'll be a GM one day, or even a coach, teaching the game to the young guys.

I am so proud to be a manager in England.

With Mourinho, I learned a lot.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

Zidane has shown that he is more than a coach.