Ursula Burns Quotes

As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

Ursula Burns

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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Walt Disney
- Time
- Mind
- Business
Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

Wendy Kopp
- People
- Experience
- Want
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Iain Duncan Smith
- Family
- High
- Financial
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Barry Commoner
- May
- Power
- Change
It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

Madhuri Dixit
- Up
- Believe
- Women
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

Zhang Ziyi
- Success
- Me
- Sad