Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.
It's difficult sometimes to, in effect, let go of how you're used to doing things and give the brand room to be reinvented.
Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.
As you've noticed people don't want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.
I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week.
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.
Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.
I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.
Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.
No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.
What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.
My father has always enjoyed games... always with a combination of the fun and social side of it, but also always highly competitive.
I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.
Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.
I think in the '80s, we certainly wrestled with what was the role of 'Playboy Magazine' in a post-sexual revolution, post-feminist world.
With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.
Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
The world changed on us. In a world where there were singles bars in every city, women weren't going to go out and hang out in a Playboy Club.
If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.
It's easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy part. The doing is the hard part.
The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
I think actions speak louder than words is one thing I think I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.
For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media... But the internet is becoming the umbrella.
I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.
We should prepare our future workforce differently. It isn't just advanced STEM degrees. There are many jobs you can do without advanced degrees.
The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since.
I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.
My mantra is, I want to work with people that I like to hang out with, who are smart, where I can add value, that I think is an interesting space.
I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn’t be so grateful. Know what you’re worth. Walk away.
I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.
You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.
So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.
A core focus of our effort is based on the recognition that our customers have varying needs, and one of their most important needs is to have choice.
I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.
You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.
It's embarrassing to be in the only westernized economy that doesn't have paid family leave and flex scheduling, and that disproportionately helps women.
I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.
At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table
The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.
Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.
The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.
You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they'll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor.
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.