Businesswomen From The United States

"Women kept saying they were going to make a movie about Deborah Szekely, but no one started it,"

"So my daughter Sonia encouraged me to do it."

"As I touched on earlier, is RI&S’ global impact. We’re not just working to address national challenges, but also global issues. For example, we develop advanced sensors, cyber services and software solutions, and we deliver cutting-edge technology that enables our customers to succeed in any domain, against any challenge."

"She started Rancho La Puerta Wellness Resort and Spa when she was 17, and she started the Golden Door Spa outside of San Diego. And she’s still going strong."

"That was my role kind of in life. And so it became natural for me to become more of a film producer."

"I spent her 100th birthday with her, and the whole town of Tecate, Mexico, came out and gave her a party."

"I came from a family of nine children, I was the eighth of nine."

"When you have a big group of people trying to do anything you need somebody who is very organized and very laser focused on what things need to be done."

"They had parties for her in San Diego."

"A Congressional Management Guide was her idea. She put it together and it’s now in its 17th edition."

"I do know that I’m pleased every time I see some area opening up."

"They didn’t have any clout. But I thought that they were talented and I thought, Boy, I’d like to see their work."

"Whether it’s in front of the camera or behind the camera."

"If you had to classify me as a personality type, I’m more of a producer."

"They didn’t know anyone."

"They had parties for her in Washington, D.C. She told me is still walks the mile a day. Sometimes she has to use a walker to do it, but she still does it."

"She’s lived an extraordinary life, and to spend the day with someone who at 100 was still inspiring me was something that I wanted to document."

"When I first started out doing this, it wasn’t consciously just to open up things."

"She started a center for new citizens who come into the United States."

"All proceeds will be directed to the Bross Scholarship Fund supporting under-resourced youth,” according to a release."

"I would talk to people who I found interesting, people who didn’t know how to break into the industry."

"She wrote a book that Congress uses today to tell you what to do when you first get elected to Congress."

"Scholarships provide free access to the Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and to Summer Film Camp."

"there were so many lessons learned during my Partpic journey. One thing to point out is that I was 23 years old when I came up with the idea and started the company. And so I was very young entrepreneur and was learning a time during that time. And I would say, you know, the top things that I was able to work with and perfect with."

"We had a really interesting journey in building that business, ultimately selling it to Amazon into 2016 and integrating the technology into the Amazon mobile app."

"Really circulated around building relationships and trusting that even when things were difficult and they were often very difficult given the fact that we were building this kind of novel, new technology and particularly building it in an industry that is pretty old school, I would say pretty archaic as it relates to technology, or at least it was at that time."

"We gave away a lot of product. But from a strategic standpoint, there wasn’t any strategy. It was just, “Wow, this is what companies do and this is something I believe in.”"

"I started my faith journey at a very early age and can remember, you know, Sunday mornings were spent in church. My grandmother, I’m sure, will listen to this podcast. And she made sure that I was in Sunday school and always right there, you know, front row for a service. So that was a great foundation for me. And then I think, you know, speaking about the faith journey, I was in a routine growing up of being in church."

"I grew up in a house where asprin ownership was seen as a great thing. And so I always knew that I wanted to become an entrepreneur. I didn’t know what the path would be to get there, but it was on 12, 12 twelve that I had. What would be the idea for what would become part pick?"

"That experience gave me a lot of things to consider as far as creating a beer company and thinking about, well, people like drinking beer. But how can we do something good with good beer? And that just blossomed in a way that I never imagined. I never imagined we could support elementary schools and things of that nature."

"For my community, they saw me as the first Black woman in the craft beer business, specifically. They saw me out there doing things: brewing beer, having a product, having a brand, selling the brand."

"At that time, I wasn’t really thinking in any significant way, “Oh, this is a way to build brand awareness,” because people weren’t even using that phrase then. I was like, “This organization could use beer for their event and this can help them raise money, so why not?”"

"And the idea just kind of hit me that you could do it with a camera search and leverage, you know, computer vision technology, which I didn’t understand fully what that meant at the time, but learned a lot about it and set out on our journey to build this technology and build a company around the technology, which became part Picon."

"If you can find investors who believe in you, and who understand the product and the why behind it, they can be invaluable in terms of directing the company and helping you decide what comes next."

"People of color want to be in spaces and rooms that give them access, but there’s a specific kind of burden people of color walk around with when navigating white spaces."

"I spent the first five years of my career in the real estate and tech world. I worked at a furnished rental housing startup, creating beautiful spaces that people could bounce between."

"And I was a reader, I knew even then that I had been given a magnificent opportunity to help create something important that would stand the test of time. So I got to work creating a service organization for black museum professionals and professionals in other museums but in those days the priority was on black museums. That meant developing publications and communication strategies, planning workshops and annual meetings; engaging the field in strategic planning; providing advice and capacity building and serving the Board; and all the tasks that we do as EDs. And fundraising!!!!"

"I am happy to see that many of the core institutions have evolved into extraordinary institutions: DuSable, Wright Museum in Detroit and Anacostia; the African Meeting House in Boston; the college museums like Hampton and Howard; the Great Plains Black History Museum and the Black American West Museum and so many others. Their resiliency amazes me!"

"I was Head of Operations, and I led everything from finding the landlords, to negotiating leases, to bringing the apartments to life The company was great but unfortunately we were unable to raise enough capital to continue growing the business. After that I worked with a founder with a finance background, who wanted me to come on and lead product for a company that was going to democratise real estate."

"There’s less than 1% of Black-owned breweries out of 9,000. We would probably be a lot further along if it were not for gender or not for race. But we didn’t allow that to stop us."

"Those were going on when I was, when I was 9, 10, 11 years old, and I was just riveted by the TV whenever they would show that control room with all those computers and all those people sitting there monitoring and managing these space missions. And Apollo 11 — that was the thing. The first lunar landing was just amazing. And that got me very excited about technology."

"I would say that, before I even knew what computer science or electrical engineering, what those terms even meant — long before that, one of the very earliest moments or period of time that got me excited about technology, were the Apollo space missions."

"I did more of the pulling apart than putting together but yes, and my family was very patient with me and, in fact, encouraged me to take the things apart and figure out what was in there, and experiment and explore."

"It’s funny, I was just in a meeting and we were trying to unpack this question. I think Ethel’s Club has resonated with so many people, because we are building something for a group that is so often left out of the conversation. And we are doing it with intentionality and style."

"One is the sheer awe I felt at being in the same room with intellectuals, civil rights leaders and community organizers wrestling with big questions from the purpose of these museums to how the culture would be presented and how museums could be changed to accommodate what they thought might be most useful. Secondly"

"I was offered this job when I was just 29 years old and only a naturalized American citizen of 3 years. Dr. Bettye Thomas, then Head of the Bethune Museum and Archives, recruited me. I have to say that my husband was a sociologist and scholar of African American History and Culture and I had already learnt a keen appreciation of African American Culture from him."

"The project we’re working on in Rocky Mount is really a digging-in kind of project where we want to create the Brewers Village to try to create a space where people in the community — many of whom I meet day to day — have never imagined they’d be brewing beer."

"Through friends and newspapers I have maintained a fairly close contact with the evacuee-victims of our lack of confidence in American education and government agencies. On Christmas Eve it was my pleasure to have as a houseguest an old friend who is teaching in the relocation center at Poston. I hasten to suggest that Mr. Leffingwell could find among the Japanese and Nisei internees some real characters whose story, recounted by him in picture, would set before his small readers an example of courage, sensitivity, forgiveness and humility such as would set his cartoon aside from the petty humdrum of its fellows."

"Americans of Chinese ancestry share in disproportionate measure the apprehension of other non-Whites with regard to the summary treatment of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Tightening of residential restrictions against them, for instance, in the neighborhood surrounding San Francisco’s ‘Chinatown’ gives basis for their fears."

"“Friends, this is how Hitler made little Nazis: by reaching the children and youth through stories and pictures, he taught them to fear and hate certain groups"