Peggy Johnson Quotes
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We all have to think about the emerging markets.
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Acompli is just a great example of a fabulous app.
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I attended a high school with more than 4,000 students and met with a guidance counselor only once during my four-year stint. Despite my clear strengths in science and math, my counselor's advice was to pursue a degree in business. A career in engineering was never encouraged nor, in fact, ever mentioned.
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We try not to look at everything through a competitive lens.
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Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.
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As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.
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We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.
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I envision a world where our smartphone is central to our lives in a non-obtrusive and intelligent way.
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I think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere along the way, they veer off of that.
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It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.
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Do one thing well, and then build from there.
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I worked on anti-submarine warfare for surface ships.
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I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.
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The industry trend is that everything is moving to the cloud, and most of our customers are in this very heterogeneous world.
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'Rather than fighting over a piece of the pie, can we grow the pie?' is really our model.
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I can still hear my mom's voice echoing through the house, reminding me and my siblings to 'Make your beds!' It seems like such a small thing, but when you're one of 15 brothers and sisters like me, those small reminders about the importance of discipline and order are critical.
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Live Nation is one of the most unique, exciting companies in the world and has remained at the forefront of the live entertainment industry by continuing to innovate and bring live entertainment to more fans around the globe.
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There are more and more women entering into the workforce themselves. More and more of them are making more money.
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Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice.
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I had to find my own terms for success, and it wasn't anything like what I was told to do.
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At many companies, business development is treated as a sales tool for incremental growth, but I believe that business development can bend our growth curve in a big way. It should accelerate our ability to grow, helping us quickly close gaps or leap ahead of competitors.
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I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.
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Women themselves are an emerging market.
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I think our Acompli acquisition was an interesting one, which started with a partnership and looking at their mobile e-mail app on iOS and Android. And what I would like to highlight with that one is the speed that we actually turned that around and brought it out the door.