These administrator quotes will inspire you. Administrator is a person responsible for running a business, organization, etc.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging administrator quotes, administrator sayings, and administrator proverbs.
Famous Administrator Quotes
- “I’m not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.” ~ John Paul DeJoria
- “When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it’s just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush’s fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.” ~ Jimmy Carter
- “An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.” ~ Marshall McLuhan
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“Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.” ~ Malala Yousafzai
- “Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible – forms which only the precious metals provide.” ~ Elgin Groseclose
- “The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by the normal procedures of established science and administrators in universities.” ~ Peter A. Sturrock
- “But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there’s an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I’m basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.” ~ Roone Arledge
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“Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.” ~ John Calvin
- “Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.” ~ Richard Serra
- “Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.” ~ Antonio Tabucchi
- “The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.” ~ John Taylor Gatto
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“We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.” ~ Pio of Pietrelcina
- “As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.” ~ Bobby Knight
- “Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it’s become a real problem for administrators that they don’t have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.” ~ Nat Friedman
- “Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president’s first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.” ~ John Mica
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“I taught in a small teacher’s college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn’t.” ~ David Eddings
- “I’d come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the Army at the end, in 1945.” ~ Eli Wallach
- “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” ~ Jacques Barzun
- “I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.” ~ Adam Hamilton
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.” ~ Mary Parker Follett
- “The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well… the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.” ~ Carlos Slim
- “I’d like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to do. You’ll be given books and told chapters to assign the children. Veteran teachers will show you the correct way to fill out forms and have your classes line up.And here’s some more good news. If you do all of these things badly, they let you keep doing it. You can go home at three o’clock every day. You get about three months off a year. Teaching is a great gig.However, if you care about what you’re doing, it’s one of the toughest jobs around.” ~ Rafe Esquith
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“I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
- “School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school principals and administrators to allow them to create a strong ecosystem in our schools and support teachers and parents as well.” ~ Shaheen Mistri
- “If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that’s fine with me. I hope he’s a good one and enjoys it and doesn’t get caught. I’ll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he’s out of the house and not part of my family.” ~ Steve Wozniak
- “To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.” ~ Ken Robinson
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“For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.” ~ Albert J. Nock
- “I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.” ~ Jennifer Ellison
- “Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.” ~ Christina Hoff Sommers
- “Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]’s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory…: ‘If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.’ With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you’d forget your grammar too.” ~ E. L. Doctorow
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“The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.” ~ Glen Mazzara
- “The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency for it. Parents don’t like it, administrators don’t like it, and kids don’t like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it–which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.” ~ Bob Schaffer
- “The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.” ~ Learned Hand
- “Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.” ~ Michael Enzi
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“After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.” ~ Karen Mills
- “Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I’m not a details person. I go for the big sweep.” ~ Peter Hollingworth
- “When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by human interests, desires, beliefs, notions, and prejudices, just like other people. They have neither superhuman wisdom nor extraordinary virtue.” ~ Hans F. Sennholz
- “Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.” ~ Michael Barone
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“Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.” ~ Nancy Astor
- “Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don’t need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it – just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.” ~ Sally Jenkins
- “Secretary Hillary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department. She also used numerous mobile devices to send and to read email on that personal domain.” ~ James Comey
- “I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.” ~ David Brooks
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“The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing the behavior of young people in public schools. Behaviors that were normally handled by teachers, guidance counselors and school administrators are now dealt with by the police and the criminal justice system.” ~ Henry Giroux
- “Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.” ~ Malik Yusef
- “The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers’ encouragement, I tried shooting a couple of shorts of my own. Directing was stressful, it was not my strength. But writing the scripts and helping others with their scripts – that was a gas. Making stuff up the way I wanted to see it was the biggest kick I ever experienced.” ~ Karen Walton
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“An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.” ~ Geoffrey Canada
- “In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.” ~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
- “Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.” ~ Richie Benaud
- “It’s certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois’ programs successful. He’s one heck of a guy.” ~ Tyrone Willingham
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“An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.” ~ Geoffrey Canada
- “For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America’s public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one’s interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country’s rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation’s moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is – and has been – far too high.” ~ Nancy Gibbs
- “There isn’t any question about Washington’s greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn’t have done it…. Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.” ~ Harry S. Truman
- “I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house – my home. It’s where I feel comfortable and confident and I get to explore these big human stories and dramas and collaborate with extraordinary people, great talented artists and administrators and other people who are passionate about it and support it. It’s like working with a great big family – the family you love and enjoy being with all the time.” ~ Jake Heggie
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“Sometimes the funniest people don’t know that they’re funny – like the administrators in my high school.” ~ Vanessa Bayer
- “Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions – with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state – should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.” ~ Tom Peters
- “So when they say I’m a low-level systems administrator, that I don’t know what I’m talking about, I’d say it’s somewhat misleading.” ~ Edward Snowden
- “Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.” ~ Edward Abbey
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“Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.” ~ Andre Leon Talley
- “There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by institutional economists, lawyers, and administrators interested in formulating and implementing public policy. It has been the tendency of these groups to work almost as though the other did not exist.” ~ Martin Shubik
- “Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.” ~ Malala Yousafzai
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“Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.” ~ David Perkins
- “Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?” ~ Allen West
- “As security or firewall administrators, we’ve got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we’re the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we’re the ones who come up smelling awful.” ~ Marcus J. Ranum
