“Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. ‘Here, open it, it’s perfect. You’ll love it.’ Opportunities — the good ones — are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They’re risky. They challenge you.” Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of Youtube, and a longtime pioneer within the…
“The thing that really sticks – and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same – is just thinking about the next day, the next week.” Ana Botin is the Executive Chairman of the Santander Group. She has had a strong focus on entrepeneurs by backing small enterprise and women-owned businesses. Listed within the top 10 of Power Women…
“Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it’s time to move on.” Nancy Pelosi is the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, and made history in 2007 when she became the first woman to fill this role. pelosi works towards lowering health care costs, increase workers’ pay through strengthening the economy, and…
“I’m quite a resilient human being” Emilia Clarke is a British actress known for her infamous leading role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO original series, Game of Thrones. Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke is an English actress. She studied at the Drama Centre London, appearing in a number of stage productions. Her television debut was a guest appearance in…
“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of…
“There are only so many ways to cook, there are only so many ways to make food taste good. If we can just use whatever small amount of information that we have to distill things, to understand the universal, then it’ll be a lot easier to be a good citizen of the world.” Samin Nosrat is a food writer, TV…
“No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women’s rights and making sure parents have what they need to raise healthy kids. I have always cared, but having just had a child, I know how serious it is to be a mother. It’s an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources.” Chrissy…
“I very much try not to — and don’t — make it a habit of treating my actors differently than I treat the gaffer or the grip or the craft services manager or hair and makeup, because we’re all making the movie,” she says. “Because I used to be crew, and I would see the hierarchy and I always thought:…
“Now more than ever, our people(Haitians) will need jobs and a way to be self-sufficient. When the donations stop, how will the country survive? I need you to persevere in making this dream a reality as the lives of many are at stake.” Yve-car Momperousse from the time she was young, used Haitian Black Castor Oil. In her adult age,…
“Before I took the leap into entrepreneurship I was working at one of the top PR agencies here in New York City, but I wasn’t there. I realised that I wasn’t gonna be completely happy with the work that I was doing until I had a little more control over the types of brands that I was doing PR for,…
