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"We were raised to not shy away from conflict. That quality has helped me focus on what I believe is the right thing to do and manage the conflict and criticism that has come our way"

"Balance the workforce: Hire one man for every woman, and balance it across positions of management. The only way to really drive change is to have diversity represented"

"My third employee was a professor, who had a huge background in ethics, Wojcicki said. We've always focused on how are we going to consent people appropriately"

"I started to realize that if you really wanted to understand the human genome and to have a different type of healthcare system, you had to have it driven by the people and for the people"

"I found that few aspects of healthcare actually were in my best interest,” Wojcicki said. I would like to just stay healthy and to never use healthcare, but I found that almost no aspects of what I was investing in were focused on ‘How do I stay out of the system"

"I loved genetics and the idea that you have a code inside of you that interacts in your environment and determines how your body works"

"We were like ‘Let's go for a million,’” she said, “and then at a million, we said, ‘Wow we can really do some crazy things at 10 million. And now, we have so many people that you have disease representation in pretty much all of the phenotypes that you want to be studying"

"The future,Wojcicki said, is dripping with possibilities"

"I have all the pieces in place"

"While I am disappointed that we have come to this conclusion and my bid was rejected, I am supportive of the company and I intend to be a bidder, she wrote. I have resigned as CEO of the company so I can be in the best position to pursue the company as an independent bidder"

"We have had many successes but I equally take accountability for the challenges we have today"

"Susan has been my inspiration and mentor since I was born"

"It was devastating news when she was diagnosed in 2022 and it's still a shock to believe my vibrant, passionate, loving sister is gone"

"Whether you're in a relationship or not should not dictate whether or not you have the ability to have children,Wojcicki told Forbes. I'm very stubborn. When there's something I want to do, I get it done"

"I would say [it has evolved] a feeling of freedom and simplicity, sometimes almost hiding elegant details that you notice later in time…I often say that it has to be omnipresent in its disappearance."

"Basically, I always try to reconcile poor and rich materials. It is an anti-ghetto and nonconformist idea about the arrangement of space and light."

"I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure, and succeed after failing"

"My big idea is to marry affordability and access to ensure that we leverage innovation to develop affordable, cutting-edge therapies for chronic diseases. I am on a mission to make a global impact by ensuring affordable access to healthcare"

"My life’s work has been focused on building a new model of innovation that adds the condition of affordability to ensure accessibility. I have successfully challenged the Western world’s existing model of pharmaceutical innovation, which leads to the creation of monopolistic markets for novel, life-saving drugs that deliver high margins at low volumes"

"I strongly believe that we can increase the number of women in leadership roles if we can plug their exit post-motherhood. In order to do this, we need to have a more enabling ecosystem that comprises the workplace, the home, and society at large. Good childcare infrastructure at the workplace and a strong family support system can help in a big way. As corporates, we can contribute by providing flexible human-resources policies that allow women to transition back to their jobs post-maternity in a smooth manner"

"We are seeing heightened awareness and discussions in India around facilitating women at work and addressing the issue of gender diversity. Recently we have seen the passage of the maternity bill in India, which has extended the maternity-leave period for women to 26 weeks. More recently, the Indian parliament is debating a proposal of awarding two days of paid menstrual leave every month to women at work in public and private sectors"

"I was totally unprepared for the gender bias that a young woman had to face for daring to start a business in the male-dominated society of India of the 1970s. But, actually, my experience did not make me change my belief that knowledge doesn’t discriminate on the basis of gender, and a woman can achieve anything if she puts her mind to it"

"I have always believed that successful businesses thrive on great human relationships, which are formed through collaborations and extend out into personal and professional networks. Very often, strong personal networks lead to robust professional relationships"

"I call myself an accidental entrepreneur"

"Even in the U.S. now, the adoption of biosimilars is becoming far greater because health care costs are spiraling out of control, and anything you can do to rein in costs is going to be very important"

"We have a huge opportunity to build a very large business"

"Just because we cannot afford human insulin, we are having to use animal insulin, so let me do something about it"

"That is what then gave me the raison d’être to focus on biopharmaceuticals"

"I believe we are in a humanitarian business, she says, and I think we are doing our bit for affordable access, which is what we want"

"We went into it with our eyes open. We were not afraid, and we were prepared to face jail and brutality. We knew that our struggle was just."

"When we joined the struggle, we never thought of ourselves as heroes. We only thought that it was our duty."

"Women have always been in the struggle, whether in the background or in the front. Without women, the movement would never have survived."

"Life in Antarctica is wonderful."

"Don’t know how people see things but I see the bigger picture in everything. I don’t have to be the king but as long as you being the king is going to favour everybody. I don’t really care; we are all going to die someday."

""May D, P-Square and betrayals in creative industry. 18 January 2025, The Guardian Newspaper."

"It’s only when someone has money that he opens an account."

"That life is practically an Ecosystem. To survive, you must keep struggling. Keep doing your thing until it’s your time."

"Life is art, and if you know life, you can make several lyrics out of it."

"The first thing I did was to ensure structural change because it is no longer good enough as leaders to bring women into spaces where they must suffer in order to survive. It is no longer just about a seat at the table where one is constantly being minimized and invisibilised. It is about having, owning that seat at the table and thriving."

"Our core values have dramatically changed to kindness and compassion. In the past these values were not even remotely possible but because of women being part of the leadership team, these values are now a cornerstone."

"If I look at my own country South Africa, we inherited a health system that was really inequitable and in a sense, although we are doing excellent work in some sectors, we are grappling with the injustices of the past."

"As part of the de-colonisation project, we need to deliver health care to where people are, such that they don’t have to travel long distances to access health care."

"Category:Women archaeologists"

"Category:People from KwaZulu-Natal"

"Category:1932 births"

"Leaders of the future will be dealing with challenges that are ‘wicked’ and very complex. I would say the top 3 skills are as follows: 1. Innovative agility … 2. Compassionate acumen – leading with heart and love. My belief is that in order to be a great leader you have to create peaceful and loving environments where people can fully live out their dreams. 3. Reflective quotient … a leader has to recognise their full humanity while being cognisant of the past and that which is required of them in future."

"The greatest professional honor of my life has been to be a Member of Whitehead Institute and a Professor of Biology at MIT. To be part of the extraordinary research landscape, to educate our outstanding MIT students, and to have had opportunities to contribute to governance and international activities, has been quite wonderful."

"The great thing that we give our students at MIT, in terms of employability and flexibility to respond to shifts in careers, is the ability to solve problems, a training that is applicable across every field."

"Publiseer is a digital publishing platform tailored to meet the growing needs of independent African authors and recording artists from low-income communities."

"We help writers and musicians distribute and monetise their books, audiobooks, songs and music videos across over 400 digital stores worldwide at no charge."