Ruth J. Simmons Quotes

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.