Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.
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When I was in the 10th grade, I decided to run for a position on the student council with the campaign slogan 'Nuthin but a Boz thang,' so you might say joining Beats Music is like coming full circle.
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You can't control everything.
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I think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.
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I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.
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I'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.
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I do think brands are like people.
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The number of African Americans in Silicon Valley is dismal. It's not up to one company - it's up to the entire industry to make sure that we are moving the conversation forward. Sometimes those walls of competition need to come down so we can move the entire industry forward.
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Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.
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It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.
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Even though society has come a long way in correcting the inequalities between men and women in the workplace, it still has to be said that women are oftentimes subconsciously playing to the gender roles which we are taught from birth.
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Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.
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I don't have to be an engineer to understand we need female engineers.
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When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.
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If you are in a hiring position, hire someone that is nothing like you. We keep looking for the commonalities, but find someone with commonalities that are nothing like you.
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My job is about emotion. My job is about feeling. This might be controversial to say, but I feel like sometimes data gets in the way of that.
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I feel really proud of the work I did at Apple Music, and I don't take anything away from it that's negative at all.
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We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.
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I'm such a brand nerd.
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I bite my nails.
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Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.
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Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.
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I want to listen to my Apple Music on my iPhone. I also want to listen to it on my iPad. I want to play it on my Apple TV; I want to be connected everywhere I go. It fits into the puzzle of everything that is Apple, and, therefore, it should not be seen as some sort of separate entity that is trying to find its way.
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Don't let the myths make you believe that women don't support other women.