Leadership Rules

1. If you're not at the table; you're on the menu.
2. You never know what will walk through that door.
3. Never wrestle with a pig- you will get dirty and the pig likes it.
4. Today's pig is tomorrow's pork.
5. Scorpions do what scorpions do.
6. Nobody wants to hear about the labor pains; but everybody wants to see the baby.
7. You can't fix parents.
8. If everything is important, nothing is important.
9. The world is run by people who show up.
10. A horrible ending is better than horrors without end.
11. There is no mud on the high road.
12. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
13. Overkill is underrated.
14. If you don't have an M.D. in your pocket, don't give medical advice.
15. Down time is reading time.
16. Never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
17. Once the local media attacks- you are finished.
18. It doesn't matter where you are on the food chain when the feeding frenzy starts.
19. Budgeting is a matter of priority; schools can have everything that they want- they just cannot have everything that they want.
20. Education is about evolution-not resolution; but you had better evolve fast.
21. You can't tap dance on the deck of a sinking ship.
22. The formula for insanity: Do the same thing and expect different results.
23. The recipe for failure is to acquire a larger piece of a shrinking market.
24. Nobody looks for a shark in their swimming pool.
25. A scheme beats a dream every time.
26. You can't counted in until you can be counted on.
27. A is A
28. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
29. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
30. Function follows form.
31. Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
32. Pigs get fat- and hogs get slaughtered.
33. Paranoia will destroy ya.
34. Don't try to do the job of a Board Member until you are elected.
35. Show me the money.
36. Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.
37. I do nothing- but everything gets done.
38. If you hand out cookies; you make cookie monsters.
39. The last word is expensive.
40. First thought wrong.
41. Good artists copy- great artists steal.
42. Drive for show- putt for dough.
43. When you put blood in the water- you will have to kill the sharks.
44. A lot of people have won one in a row.
45. If you've got no animals; you've got no zoo.
46. We don't just follow the rules we like.
47. Two people can keep a secret- if one of them is dead.
48. Don't let the bankers run your business.
49. Leave your parent hat at home.
50. Don't mess in the affairs of dragons if you are crunchy and taste good covered in ketchup.
51. Tough times do not build character- they reveal it.
52. Don't be nice in writing.
53. Everyone is going to tell you how smart you are, and how cleaver you are; and we both know you ain't.
54. Don't lose a game to prove a point.
55. I would rather win than lose, be ahead rather than behind, and have the ball rather than not have the ball.
56. Water the flowers and pull the weeds.
57. The circus don't stay in town all year.
58. Eliminate those who are not motivated.
59. How many trees do you need to see?
60. It's a big chair.
61. Clowns and leaders don't mix.
62. What you have the power to do; you have the power not to do.
63. Mind your business- keep your hands to yourself.
64. Unless the police laugh- It's not a joke.
65. It suffices.