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" Businesses perform better when you have diversity of view in your senior leadership positions. This is not just the right thing to do socially; it's the right thing to do for your business. "
View
Leadership
Diversity
" Competition is one click away. Innovation happens everywhere... you better have a culture asking for a voice. "
Innovation
Competition
Culture
" Culture is more important than rules and regulations. "
Culture
Important
More
" Growing up in Silicon Valley, during my time at Morgan Stanley and as a member of Stanford's Board, I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives. "
Time
Experience
Opportunity
" If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruised and battered. "
Get
Just
Going
" If you continue to plow ahead in something that is OK, you will miss the opportunity to do something that is great. "
Will
Opportunity
You
" If you don't have ample liquidity, and it's not durable, in times of stress, as you're looking for liquidity, you're forced to sell assets at declining prices, which then eats into your capital position, so it becomes this very, very negative cycle. There's no question that liquidity is sacrosanct. "
Looking
Negative
Question
" If you're just focused on work, my view is that you'll never get enough back from any organization, no matter how fantastic the role is, and you have to have a full life so that you really get enriched in a lot of different ways, and that can be family and kids. It can be, for others, sports. "
Organization
Family
Life
" I hate the term 'work-life balance.' I think it's a setup, and it's trap for all of us. "
Think
Us
Balance
" I have not been a believer of point guidance. It really limits your flexibility to do what you want. It leads to behavior that is not supportive of long-term shareholder value. "
Your
You
Want
" I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with certain career milestones preceding whatever you may want in your personal life. Unfortunately, life doesn't know it is supposed to follow a schedule. "
Life
People
Think
" I'm delighted to be returning to my California roots and joining Google. "
Roots
California
Returning
" Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change. "
Technology
Leads
You
" Innovation happens everywhere. "
Innovation
Happens
Everywhere
" I remember, the first time it struck me is I was an econ major at Stanford as an undergrad, and it struck me how few women were econ majors back in the '70s. And then in business school how few women... And even then, I thought, 'Gosh, this is really unfortunate.' "
Thought
Women
Time
" I stayed at Morgan Stanley for 27 years because it was fun. I kept learning. "
Years
Because
Kept
" I think what Sheryl Sandberg said about the importance of 'leaning in' is very true, but it's not sufficient. "
Importance
Leaning
Think
" It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much innovation. And the big challenge is, how do you think about resource allocation and priorities when you have so many great options? But wearing jeans instead of suits and popping into driverless cars has also been a lot of fun. "
Fun
Challenge
Think
" I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives. "
Daily
Experience
People
" I view investors as our partners and stakeholders in the company. They are trying to build financial models. What I try to focus on is helping them understand how we think. "
Financial
Think
Trying
" Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system. "
Financial
Liquidity
Oxygen
" One of the biggest problems women have is they work really hard and put their heads down and assume hard work gets noticed. And hard work for the wrong boss does not get noticed. Hard work for the wrong boss results in one thing - that boss looks terrific, and you get stuck. "
Work
Hard Work
Problems
" Recognize that killing a weak idea early is valuable. "
Recognize
Early
Valuable
" Since 1987, there are now many more of us as at the higher levels with families, so I think, as role models, we are encouraging more women to stay within banking and rise up through the ranks. "
Think
Rise
Now
" Solving problems for users at scale ultimately results in monetization opportunities. "
Scale
Results
Problems
" Stick to your true north - build greatness for the long term. "
Build
Greatness
Long
" The cloud is one of the most extraordinary opportunities of our lifetime. If we're not investing now, we'll rue the day we didn't. "
Cloud
Opportunities
Now
" The most important thing is culture. "
Important
The Most Important
Culture
" The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data. "
Most
Data
Clear
" There are no good options in the midst of a crisis. "
Good
Options
Crisis
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