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You cannot be brave without fear.
I loved college, I loved Princeton.
Sometimes you have to crouch to conquer
The biggest risk of all is not taking one.
Black people use body lotion every single day.
I don't want to be a victim. I want to be a victor.
Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.
I've been thought to be a flight attendant many many times.
I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave.
We cannot afford to be color-blind, we have to be color-brave.
White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.
On my worst day I always tell myself I'm not in a field picking cotton.
The average American has 11 jobs in their lifetime, and I've only had one.
When I think of my career and why I leaned in, it comes down to basic survival.
You know, when you're the youngest kid, you kind of get the last of everything.
I honestly think I'm going to rot my brain with all the news. I'm a news junkie.
Don't be color blind, be color brave. Embrace diversity as a competitive advantage.
If we can learn to deal with our discomfort and just relax into it we'll have a better life.
Having a financially illiterate society is dangerous, and we have to do something about that.
Observe your environment. Invite people into your life that don't look like you or think like you
Even though I will never be evicted again, I am haunted by those times and still work relentlessly.
Being aware of challenges doesn't make them sting less, but once you see them, you can assess the best way to handle them.
I'm an interested party in obviously the name and reputation of Lucas - because I'm a Lucas, even though I don't go by Lucas.
Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow.
If you exclude a group of people from the boardroom or the leadership ranks of a company, the company is not as good as it could be.
It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.
I've used some of my differences as a way to stand out and to hopefully count and matter - and hopefully create an opportunity for others.
I grew up going to a school where there weren't a lot of black kids. And so my mother, from a very, very young age, has sensitized me to race.
There's nothing wrong with being help. But it's very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That's problematic.
We don't prognosticate macroeconomic factors, we're looking at our companies from a bottom-up perspective on their long-run prospects of returning.
The first thing I do after waking up is check my phone for news. I like to make sure the world is still here and understand what happened overnight.
How many people, though, do I meet that I think have talent? Well actually a lot. That's what drives my enthusiasm in the conversation about diversity.
The way I go about it is that we should all be inviting people into our lives who don't look like us, speak like us and don't come from where we come from.
I love Obama. And Michelle. I was so grateful for them. They were such stunning people. We were lucky to have them. They were great symbols for our society.
Black women have a kind of advantage over white women in the workplace. They go in prepared to face some discrimination, so when it happens, they aren't shocked.
When people look at all the things I do, they say it's overwhelming, but I don't feel overwhelmed. I get it done. I'm very organized, and it's all tied together.
A year's worth of Social Security for an individual is not considered to be below the poverty level, and yet we know that would be extraordinarily tough to live on.
It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.
You can teach someone with basic smarts to be smarter; you can't teach cultural fit or personality. But you also want someone who has a passion to win; someone that is all in.
I've never met Colin Kaepernick, but he's a hero of mine. I'm in awe that he took it upon himself to publicly promote the American values of life and liberty that we all cherish.
I take vitamins when I wake up. One of them I need to take is to wake up my brain. It has some caffeine in it, and it stimulates my brain and I'm literally not a person without it.
I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one.
We've got one shot at this life, and to not be productive with what we've been given, to me, is a travesty. I think the biggest waste is when a human life is wasted. It's unforgivable.
People can be sensitive, so if I need to, I'll suck it up and be more flowery. I'll do what it takes to get the outcome I want. As I like to say, sometimes you have to crouch to conquer.
When you grow up in America today, most schools don't teach you about money and investing. You could literally take a class in woodshop or auto in high school and not take a class on money.
When you feel house poor, you don't buy anything. Housing immediately impacts the job numbers because there are so many housing-related jobs within the industry, and in adjacent industries.
People feel a great deal of their wealth or lack thereof in their home value. Despite the fact they're living there and not going to sell it per se, it does have a big psychological effect.
I always felt very insecure financially as a child. I was desperate to understand money as a child. I was desperate to be secure. Because I always felt like the rug could be pulled from under me.
Diverse perspectives lead to a better outcome. There's so much data, when you look at the math, in terms of the investor returns and the shareholder value that gets created from more diverse boards.
In the spirit of debunking racial stereotypes, the one that black people don't like to swim, I'm going to tell you how much I love to swim. I love to swim so much that as an adult, I swim with a coach.