Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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I'm living out my dreams every day.
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I've always been a black woman in corporate America. I've faced my share of issues.
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You can't control everything.
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I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.
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I love sleep so much. That's the one thing I won't sacrifice. I really cannot.
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Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.
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I bite my nails.
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Companies can change. Culture can change.
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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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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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I'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.
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We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.
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As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.
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We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.
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Passion should meet your professional life, and I'm a living, breathing testament to that.
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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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At 13, I learned what it meant to walk into a room and not care what everybody thinks of you.
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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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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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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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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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I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!
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Because my husband, Peter, died young, I've already faced the scariest thing in my life. Now I live out the dreams for both of us.
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I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.