Edwin Louis Cole Quotes

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

To innovate is not to reform.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

In order for the Bureau to change we have to open ourselves to suggestions

You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.