Attention Quote by Steven Sample

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer…

— Gordon Gee

Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is…

— Mark Yudof

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

— Leon Botstein

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

— Albert Einstein

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

— William J. Clinton

“A successful college president once complained to me, I'm so busy that I'm going to have to get a helicopter! Well, I answered, you'll…

— Alan Wilson Watts

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

— Andy Rooney

Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

— Lisa Kleypas

Some of the beauty of a university is that every professor is given a lot of autonomy over what he or she does. That's…

— Sal Khan

The world has a rich tradition of leaders who fancy themselves smart enough to determine what the people should and shouldn't hear, and crack…

— Mary Katharine Ham

Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It…

— Kent McCord