Simon Sinek (1973) British/American author and motivational speaker
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Video commentary featured on website of the Chicago Public Education Fund http://www.cpef.org/nm_video.htm#
Simon Sinek (1973) British/American author and motivational speaker
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
Not by Auden; sources from the 1980s attribute it to the Rev. W. A. Nance (the name seems to have been confused with Auden's).
Misattributed
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)
“It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”
Dan Quayle (1947) American politician, lawyer
If Quayle said this, he would only be repeating a phrase that first appeared in print approximately 100 years earlier. See: Staff writer (13 May 1889) "The Great State of Chicago," Chicago Daily Tribune; Staff writer (13 April 1895) " The State of Chicago http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E0DB103AE533A25750C1A9629C94649ED7CF," New York Times; Norman Mailer (1968) Miami and the Siege of Chicago <br class="br">Attributed
Marshall Goldsmith (1949) American author of leadership and management literature
Source: What Got You Here Won't Get You There, 2008, p. 72 (in 2010 edition)
“My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.”
David Mamet (1947) American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director
Chicago Public Library Foundation, 2007-12-20 http://www.chicagopubliclibraryfoundation.org/,
“We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Address at a meeting of the Berkeley Lyceum, New York, November 23, 1900. Quoted in Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 146 http://books.google.com/books?id=7etXZ5Q17ngC&pg=PA146 (The speech is titled "Public Education Association" in that book, but also referred to elsewhere as his "I am a Boxer" speech.)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
What's the matter with Chicago? (1902)
Context: Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like all other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. The Illinois Central Railroad Company selected the site upon which the city is built and this consisted of a vast miasmatic swamp far better suited to mosquito culture than for human beings. From the day the site was chosen by (and of course in the interest of all) said railway company, everything that entered into the building of the town and the development of the city was determined purely from profit considerations and without the remotest concern for the health and comfort of the human beings who were to live there, especially those who had to do all the labor and produce all the wealth.
As a rule hogs are only raised where they have good health and grow fat. Any old place will do to raise human beings.
Rahm Emanuel (1959) politician, investment banker, White House Chief of Staff
Benjamin VanMetre, Unions to Bankrupt Chicago Pension Funds https://www.illinoispolicy.org/unions-to-bankrupt-chicago-pension-funds/, IllinoisPolicy.org, December 29, 2014 <br class="br">About