You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.