Ruth Simmons Quotes
- I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.
- I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't…
- It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.
- The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.
- I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a…
- 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…
- There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.
- If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
- I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I…
- Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I…
- There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are…