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Mellody Hobson

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When you're type A you always think you can fix anything. Sometimes there's nothing you can do. - Mellody Hobson
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We cannot afford to be color-blind, we have to be color-brave. - Mellody Hobson
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I know that my life is a miracle and because of that, I can't think my success is because I was so great at this, that or the other. A lot of things happened and came together. A lot of people went out of their way for me. - Mellody Hobson
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The role of a board of directors is to be a sounding board for the vision of the company - to hold executives accountable in executing that vision and to ensure a management succession plan is in place. - Mellody Hobson
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There's nothing wrong with being help. But it's very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That's problematic. - Mellody Hobson
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The first thing I do after waking up is check my phone for news. I like to make sure the world is still here and understand what happened overnight. - Mellody Hobson
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In the spirit of debunking racial stereotypes, the one that black people don't like to swim, I'm going to tell you how much I love to swim. I love to swim so much that as an adult, I swim with a coach. - Mellody Hobson
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I take vitamins when I wake up. One of them I need to take is to wake up my brain. It has some caffeine in it, and it stimulates my brain and I'm literally not a person without it. - Mellody Hobson
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Being aware of challenges doesn't make them sting less, but once you see them, you can assess the best way to handle them. - Mellody Hobson
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Having a financially illiterate society is dangerous, and we have to do something about that. - Mellody Hobson
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Now, race is one of those topics in America that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable. You bring it up at a dinner party or in a workplace environment, it is literally the conversational equivalent of touching the third rail. - Mellody Hobson
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We don't prognosticate macroeconomic factors, we're looking at our companies from a bottom-up perspective on their long-run prospects of returning. - Mellody Hobson
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I believe in civility, inclusion and diversity. I believe that everybody can contribute. I don't believe in labelling and stereotypes. These things are the antithesis of what I believe in and go against everything I love in America. And I do love America. - Mellody Hobson
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I've told stories about people coming to my office and giving me their coats and requesting that I hang them up and get coffee - which I dutifully do. And then I come in and sit at the head of the table. It's awkward. - Mellody Hobson
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When I wanted the CEO of Starbucks to keep me in mind for their board, I sent him a note rather than calling. I call it dripping: You don't want to be like a faucet full-on; you want to drip just enough that they don't forget about you. - Mellody Hobson
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Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it. - Mellody Hobson
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Every game is won with patience. - Mellody Hobson
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