Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.
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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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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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Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.
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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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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'm such a brand nerd.
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I don't fear challenge.
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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 now, when people ask me, 'Why did you take the job at Uber?' I say because my gut told me to.
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I've never run from a job; I've always run to another one.
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I believe in manifesting the words that are coming out of my mouth. I'm very careful with what I say because the intention is then out in the universe.
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I don't think it's any secret that there's a lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. But that, to me, is actually quite beautiful. It allows me to be fully me because there is no one else to look at and say, 'Oh, I should be more like that.'
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I don't expect anyone who doesn't look like me to fix my problems.
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Don't let the myths make you believe that women don't support other women.
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It's our job as marketers and brand professionals to nurture the brand and calm it down when it's angry and to encourage when it's trying to grow.
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We're complex human beings. I can wear a leather dress and still have an 8-year-old and wipe up the eggs that are on her face.
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If I can be in a position of power and influence, and be able to make my present better, then I want to do that.
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I want to be something that is worthy to be bragged about.
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There's no more exciting moment for me as a brand strategist than a turnaround.
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I've broken through many walls and glass ceilings.
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I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.
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I'm a great napper. I nap in a lot of places.
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At school, I could talk about what other kids were talking about. Maybe I wouldn't seem so strange if I connected with them on the level they were used to.