Cindy Gallop
Cindy Gallop
Lucinda "Cindy" Lee Gallopis an English advertising consultant, founder and former chair of the US branch of advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and founder of the IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn companies. According to the TED blog, Gallop's TEDTalk "Make Love Not Porn" was one of the "most talked about presentations" at the 2009 TED conference. She currently lives in New York City...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionBusinesswoman
Date of Birth1 February 1960
Cindy Gallop quotes about
challenges status-quo
Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.
our-society invisible members
I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.
greatness discomfort
Out of discomfort comes greatness
moving advertising
We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.
hate people advertising
People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.
feminist goes-on term
I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
starting-up design beliefs-and-values
I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.
single-mom thinking giving
Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.
feminist
I consider myself a rampant feminist.
team men design
When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.
creative digital-media department
It took a woman to actually do something about the lack of women in creative departments.
thinking giving people
Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.
mistake fire long
The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.
responsibility opportunity missing
Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.