Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.
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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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You can't control everything.
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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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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 think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.
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I don't have to be an engineer to understand we need female engineers.
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I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.
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I do think brands are like people.
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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'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.
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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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Music inspires some feeling in you. That's the same way I think about Uber.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm following the path that was destined for me.
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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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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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I'm such a brand nerd.
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I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.