Quotes from Ruth J. Simmons

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.

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

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

The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.

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

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.