Bozoma Saint John Quotes

There is something to be said about taking the risk. We all know that is where the greatest reward is.

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• Risk

Companies can change. Culture can change.

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• Culture

I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.

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• Dad

I've never taken the easy route. I don't even know what that is!

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• Taken

At 13, I learned what it meant to walk into a room and not care what everybody thinks of you.

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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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• Good
• Work
• Trying

I love sleep so much. That's the one thing I won't sacrifice. I really cannot.

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• Sleep
• Sacrifice

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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• Trying
• Innovation
• Fake

I've always been a black woman in corporate America. I've faced my share of issues.

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• America
• Black

The adage is true: Walk a mile in my shoes - or drive a mile in my car. There is nothing quite like sitting in the seat yourself.

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• True
• Car
• Shoes

We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.

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We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.

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• People
• Real
• Knowledge

I'm following the path that was destined for me.

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• Path

I'm living out my dreams every day.

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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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• Music

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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• Up
• Moving
• Competition

We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

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• Life
• Music

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.

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• World
• America
• Black

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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• Job
• Feeling

You can't control everything.

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• Control

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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I'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.

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• Black
• Personality
• Bold

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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• Work
• Music
• Proud

Apple Music is a living, breathing brand.

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• Music