10 powerful quotes by some of the most powerful women in the world. Including Ginni Rometty, Chairwoman and CEO of IBM, Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, Ellen J. Kullman, CEO of E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Mondelēz International, Marillyn Hewson, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin, Rosalind Brewer, President and CEO of Sam’s Club, Safra Catz, Co-President and CFO at Oracle Corporation, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox.
2. “Be First And Be Lonely.” Ginni Rometty, Chairwoman and CEO of IBM
3. “There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always
have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss
opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better,
newer course might have opened up. “ Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo
4. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you
grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’
and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a
breakthrough.” Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!
5. “With kids, they don’t do what you want them to do when you want them to
do it. Organizations don’t necessarily, either. You’ve got to listen. You’ve got to
learn how to influence.” Ellen J. Kullman, CEO of E. I. du Pont de Nemours
and Company in Wilmington and a former director of General Motors
6. “Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control
leadership. They don’t want to do things because I said so; they want to do
things because they want to do them.” Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Mondelēz
International
7. “Just as my mother said, ‘You can do anything if you put your mind to it, you
work hard and you take that responsibility,’ and I think that that would be my
message.” Marillyn Hewson, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin
8. “You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This
takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you
new respect.” Rosalind Brewer, President and CEO of Sam’s Club, a division
of Wal-Mart Stores Inc
9. “The bigger we get the easier it is.” Safra Catz, Co-President and
CFO at Oracle Corporation
10. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of
your presence and making sure that impact lasts in
your absence.” Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
11. “Ninety percent of this stuff is just not that serious, we get crazy
about it.” Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox