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
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Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.
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Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.
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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.
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I’m an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed,
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Where you are is not who you are
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Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.