Caroline Ghosn Quotes
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I used to be an awful asker. I was the 14-year-old who didn't correct the family I would babysit for when they gave me less money than we had agreed to, because it felt rude and scary.
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Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster.
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I'm very close to my family.
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In high school, I interned at my mother's restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to switch contexts quickly, as I contributed to everything from managing the reception desk to building their website.
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By saying that leaders - male or female - have to look or act a certain way to be respected as role models, we are not only hurting those individuals but also reinforcing rigid benchmarks for the next generation of passionate, aspiring leaders, who are watching.
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One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'
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I have a million career weaknesses, and although it's uncomfortable, I believe that authentically acknowledging and working through your vulnerability is more powerful than the delusion of perfection.
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Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.
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Whenever you have to figure out things that aren't explicit, like in salary negotiations, you see differences in how women and people of color succeed.
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Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.
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I wish I had known the value of interning at a startup before starting my own. There is so much I could have learned on somebody else's dime in a much lower-risk environment.
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The power of storytelling - of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd - remains absolute.
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As CEO of Levo, a millennial-focused career platform, I'm fascinated by how others turn their passion into success.
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As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.
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Your energy is a barometer for your passion.
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Ultimately, nobody can decide for you that it's the right moment to quit your job, just like nobody can decide for you that it's the right moment to fall in or out of love.
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An interview is about mutual selection.
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The way in which you accomplish your goals and help your customers needs to be very flexible depending upon how those customers are reacting in real time.
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You kind of get the same adjectives coming back over again and over again describing millennials. I think the national rhetoric around this generation is unfairly negative.
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When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'
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We are very committed to highlighting women succeeding in entrepreneurship or technology.
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Speaking personally, as a first-time female founder, I would not be where I am today without an incredible network of fellow founders who have shared their challenges, advice, and hacks with me.
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Look at an interview as an organic part of building a relationship.
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The busier you get, and the more forward-looking you become, the more difficult it is to actually acknowledge and gain strength and inspiration from the things you've already accomplished, which can become problematic when you're in a startup.