All Quotes

"But you will be wealthy in your contribution to society; appreciation of life is also our wealth as doctors"

"If you want to be a leader in business, sometimes that means taking calculated risks. You want members on your team who have ideas, won’t back down from a challenge, seek out new growth opportunities and develop plans to make it a reality. Will the plans always be successful? No. But sometimes it’s what you learn from a failure that will ultimately lead to greatness."

"“One of the things that we don’t rely enough on is our own capacity to harness our grit"

"It’s crucial to determine the resilience of your employees. There is a reason everyone is familiar with the old business adage “sink or swim.” The business world is tough. Mistakes will be made. Projects will fail. Problems will arise. You need staff members who can bounce back from adversity stronger, not staff members who give up and go home"

"We all feel viscerally that it's really a barrier to American competitiveness over the long term. So they did polling of Harvard Business School alumni over the years. This is looking at comparing 2011 and 2019 polling. And what that polling alumni basically said is that people see the political system and the education system and the healthcare system as basically areas that are diminishing American competitiveness."

"One of the most core ways to look at this is through the trust in government, which has continuously trended down since the 1960s. And is pretty stubbornly low in the 20s across administrations now. This is from Pew, long term research that they've been doing polling of American people."

"Another way to look at it is the function of Congress. We see that it just continues to decline down from 750 to 250 bills. The left-hand chart here on enacted, so the productivity of Congress, the delivery of the product to Americans continues to go down. And not only is the amount of product, so to speak, in terms of policy going down, but we don't see any correlation between the preferences of citizens and the policies come out. This is actually relatively old data."

"“I was like, ‘I don’t want to just be in a job, where I put my head down, no one wants to hear any of my thoughts for 5 to 10 years, and then someone will let me have an idea,” Beauchamp said in an interview for POLITICO’s"

"I wanted something very ambitious, and I didn’t know what that was when I was really little. I just said, “I want to be President of the United States.” That seems like the top, right? I was hungry to try hard things. I was hungry to know what I was capable of."

"This may sound obvious, but as entrepreneurs and founders, we’re wired differently. It’s often that difference that propels us to start a business in the first place. We care deeply about what we’re doing. When we begin bringing others onto the team, it’s easy to assume they will think like you. We think they will care as much as us, which simply isn’t the case. It took me some time to realize the benefit of this."

"I learned a valuable lesson that day. You never know where solutions might come from. Anyone on your team might come up with an idea that can impact thousands of people worldwide. You just have to be willing to listen, try, make mistakes, and see what happens."

"I think making a conscious effort to look at the problems those entrepreneurs are solving and generally just getting out of the "bubble," which means people may not look like a young white guy coding or running a startup. It might look like a mom of 3 who is changing careers"

"On the platforms that we launched we were just trying to talk about the issues and shine a light on people doing great work who weren't getting much exposure at the time,”"

"“I learned a lot of life lessons, but most importantly, I learned a lot of business lessons from that process. I’m proud of the path we paved, but in 2018, looking at the landscape of activity around black tech the work seemed duplicative,”"

"Connect people. It’s also my favorite thing to do. Because I travel so much for work I have amazing opportunities to meet so many people, and I’m constantly connecting them when I can see there’s synergy in their work"

"AND MY INSTANT POT. Good god. What a game changer. I love to cook, but because of work and momming I don’t always get to do the kind of cooking I love to. And that thing makes it possible for me to make things like Carnitas or Cuban black beans in an hour that I would never have time to make any other way."

"As a founder and CEO, you’ll be pulled in a million different directions at once. Without a game plan for the day, quarter, or year ahead, you’re bound to be a slave to your inbox, the Slack chats, calls, coffees, and speaking opportunities you field on a daily basis"

"It’s incredibly important for a CEO to have the whole plan in her head which is very different than her to-do list."

"I got totally made fun of for my tiny skirts."

"For me, power dressing is how you feel in something,There are always going to be things in your closet that make you feel strong when you put it on."

"I think one of the wonderful things about the time we're going through now is that so many rules have been thrown out the window, I think there's an ease that's been brought into workwear."

"For the most part, if you work in an industry or in an office that's very prescriptive in terms of wardrobe, while that's limiting, in a way, it makes it easier because you know what you can and can't get away with,” “That said, those types of businesses are far and few between these days. The advice I would always offer is, it's important to look polished and I think it's visible when you feel good in what you're wearing. And of course, always wear shoes you can walk in."

"When I think back on meetings that I've done, which have been very male dominated, I tend to dress even more feminine,In terms of commanding a room, being comfortable in your own skin, being comfortable in what you're wearing (which doesn't mean you have to wear comfortable, casual clothes), but just feeling good in what you've got on is very important."

"Over the years, I've learned that the first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and you go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one."

"The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal."

"If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie."

"the less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate."

"I think there are very few people who have a capacity to see the future. So it can be difficult when you are talking about something where nothing about it exists yet"

"Much better to figure out where the marketplace is going to be in a few years, focus on providing a solution to that, and let the market forces catch up to you."

"Venture capitalists, with the exception of people like Don Valentine, would tell you that they'd rather fund a great team than a great idea. The reason is that if they have a bad idea, great teams can figure out a better one. Mediocre people even with a great idea can screw it up in its execution. Or if they have a bad idea, then they aren't going to be in a position to think about how to change it. They're just going to pursue it blindly"

"Apparently sprinters reach their highest speed right out of the blocks, and spend the rest of the race slowing down. The winners slow down the least. It's that way with most startups too. The earliest phase is usually the most productive. That's when they have the really big ideas. Imagine what Apple was like when 100% of its employees were either Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak"

"“I’m so grateful that the residents of West Haven recognized the importance of this critical role” that their state representative plays, “that they put their confidence in me — and I won’t let them down"

"We have a lot of challenges facing us at both the local and state level, and I look forward to rolling up my sleeves and getting the job done,”"

"Everything I have done in the past three and a half decades has been driven and motivated by a humanitarian vision. In the late 90s, I published the first in-flight magazine called Kabo, which promoted the beautiful side of Sierra Leone and was used by the National Tourist Board for promotion. I also initiated the first Women of Excellence Awards to recognize and celebrate women from all walks of life, especially in the aftermath of a bitter civil war which impacted women and children the most."

"I founded the Pink Charity Fund, a breast cancer awareness program providing screening facilities to women with low income."

"Besides,And then came football. Football has always been a part of my background, but projects like the Women of Excellence Awards and the Pink Charity Fund were more visible."

"The FC Johansen story is one of the most powerful and inspirational stories, especially in using football as a tool for change. It involved underprivileged kids from the streets having trials in famous football clubs. This is just a natural progression for me as these initiatives are aligned with my humanitarian vision."

"Football for Change and Reform is no different from all the other projects that I have embarked on. It uses football to empower the girls; it is about rehabilitation, transforming their lives to get them back into society. Through football, we all come together. This is the power of our beautiful game."

"I didn’t know about the political structures.I didn’t know what it was to build a career as a football administrator to becoming an FA president or anything like that, let alone FIFA."

"These were just displaced kids as a result of the war in the neighborhood, and all I wanted to do was to get these boys off the streets at night, get them at home where they should be, get them off the streets in the morning and during the day, put them in school where they should be."

"For me, it was very obvious that they lived and dreamed for their football, so that was my focus, and this was all I was about."

"David Beckham’s coming to Sierra Leone and these boys meeting him wearing the FC Johansen shirt with a number seven, Beckham, all of that was just an amazing time for us. The kids were amazing and then I realized that, you know what? This is so powerful, we could actually change our story in a big way, in a bigger way."

"It became a big reality,.and I think that was the time it dawned on me that, you know, I think I can actually do something really big for my country through football."

"I came from a culture where women didn’t work so to watch this young woman finish university and get a job at the ATO was inspirational. I wanted to be exactly like her."

"I had one programming elective and I fell in love with it. A lecturer at the university said you’re obviously good at programming, just follow your passion."

"It is crucial that a board be made up of people whose thinking is informed by different experiences, backgrounds, and areas of expertise, this diversity allows the board to help the business to come up with better strategies, to ask better questions and to better reflect the diversity of its customers."

"When I’ve had setbacks, I’ve always been able to put them in perspective. I always make sure no matter what that I am on top of my brief and I understand my space. But I do want to see things change to a point where women can genuinely play on a level playing field to men."

"The village where I was born was very desolate, dusty, we had water in the wells."

"My mother was pregnant every year, or she had a baby. In the end, she had 16 children."

"The process I used to memorise the Koran in the village where I was born, was exactly the same as the process of software programming that I used when I was at Latrobe University."