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" I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way. "

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" When I joined Google, it was 1,000 people. It took me two and a half years to look around and realize there weren't a lot of people like me. "

" You have to do what it takes to get what you want: I didn't sleep much in school because I worked a lot - you figure out how to make it happen. "

" The future of work is changing. It's becoming a world where you are owning a lot about how you make your living. "

" My dad owned Cadillacs all my life. "

" I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process. "

" With Ikea Group ownership, TaskRabbit could realize even greater opportunities: increasing earning potential of Taskers and connecting consumers to a wide range of affordable services. "

" I like to swim a few times a week. It's relaxing, and no one can call, email, or text me while I'm in the pool. "

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" I believe you accomplish what you measure. "

" Expanding internationally is exciting and fun, but the hardest part is really about maintaining culture. "

" The way to connect to people is to relate to who they are and do something that stretches you outside of your comfort zone. "

" There are lots of little brown girls out there who want to do something to change the world, and all I want to do is help them get there. "

" I went to a special public school that was much more focused on academics and learning. My two best teachers were in accounting and calculus, so I fell in love with that, which made me want to go into business. "

" When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens. "

" The emotional side of humans interacting with each other is what makes TaskRabbit what it is. "

" A lot of entrepreneurship is seeing the future in a way that no one else sees it. Then, it becomes about execution and doing what it takes to succeed. "

" I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you. "

" When I was 14, I remember wanting a Coach bag, and my mother couldn't afford it. I decided at that age that I was going to grow up and get a job so that I could buy as many handbags as I wanted. And no one was ever going to stop me. "

" I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn't have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including I had a single mom who took care of me and my brother. "

" What we get to do at TaskRabbit is create jobs. I'm excited about the opportunity that we have to what I think of is creating everyday work for everyday people. "

" It was never an option to not succeed. "

" TaskRabbit is making life better for both consumers and Taskers. In the communities in which we operate, TaskRabbit provides strong economic impact. "

" I'm a representative of what you can become if you work hard and you focus on your education. "

" I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO. "

" I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate. "

" The big problem is that a lot of Americans, whether they are underrepresented minorities or from rural areas, do not know about career opportunities in the tech industry because they may not have had role models who are part of this field or learned about STEM in school. "

" The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want. "

" There are always people looking for extra income. "

" Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it. "