Ursula Burns
Ursula Burns
Ursula M. Burnsserves as Chairmanand CEOof Xerox. As such, she is the first black-American woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company. She is also the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a Fortune 500 company, having succeeded Anne Mulcahy as CEO of Xerox. In 2014, Forbes rated her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
Date of Birth20 September 1958
CountryUnited States of America
way easy best-way
The best way to change it is to do it, right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
team hard-work thinking
I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.
believe achieve empowered
Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.
dream strong work-ethic
Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.
believe black-and-white thinking
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
mother thinking want
I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.
mother self pragmatic
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.