This Dick Costolo leadership quote is really depressing

By Benjamin SnyderManaging Editor
Benjamin SnyderManaging Editor

Benjamin Snyder is Fortune's managing editor, leading operations for the newsroom.

Prior to rejoining Fortune, he was a managing editor at Business Insider and has worked as an editor for Bloomberg, LinkedIn and CNBC, covering leadership stories, sports business, careers and business news. He started his career as a breaking news reporter at Fortune in 2014.

Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dick Costolo Interview
Richard "Dick" Costolo, chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Twitter lnc. failed to foresee a slowdown that forced the social-media company to miss analysts' first-quarter revenue estimates and cut its 2015 sales forecast, sending the stock tumbling. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Photograph by David Paul Morris — Bloomberg via Getty Images

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, who announced his plans to resign from his post on Thursday, recently spoke about his leadership legacy at Twitter. Costolo has been at the company since 2009, when he joined as COO and became the chief executive a year later.

In an interview with Business Insider on Thursday after a conference call with reporters during which Twitter discussed the news more fully, he discussed his time at the social media company.

“I’ve accomplished, you know, an extraordinary amount, and despite all that there are still way more items on my list of hopes and dreams and potential for the company,” he told the publication. “It’s never gonna be — and for no great leader it should ever be — completely the case that you have more accomplishments than you have hopes and dreams for the company.”

For more on Costolo, check out this Fortune interview from April about his thoughts on leadership and transparency.