Karren Brady Quotes

To this day, I have an open door policy. I seek out interns and young women and try to help them. Women mentors were important to me, and I want to do that for others.

In every organization, there are many people, from senior leaders to first-time managers, who have the power to elevate women in the workplace. I wouldn't be in the position I'm in today without several key people in power believing in me and giving me a chance to succeed.

The executive female talent gap is real, and that's why it's critical to champion women throughout their careers.

One of the main things I said in my job interview was that I want to develop female coaches.

It is critical to create opportunities to identify talented women in business, then support them to develop their confidence to aim for the boardroom.

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

I feel strongly about the need for diversity, and with good reason. I'm from a generation of women that found it exhilarating to shatter the glass ceiling. We viewed obstacles as opportunities and earned our seat at the leadership table.

One of my goals is to educate myself more as a woman in this business.

There are so many career opportunities out there now for young women, and it's great to have the opportunity to encourage them to get involved in these new careers.

If a CEO takes an interest in you and he happens to be an Asian man, then that's great, but as an African-American woman, you want to make sure that if the executive vice-president of the company is an African-American woman that you get to know her.

I am happy to join Selina Majors in providing women with a fully comprehensive training program designed specifically for them. I was trained by men, and while that worked for me, I know a more supportive community for women wanting to join our profession will increase the participation.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

We're not seeing enough women rising to the top.

For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.

Women need to support other women, and we must ensure we are providing women with opportunities that allow them to reach their full potential.

We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.

When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.

Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of business, because I don't want them to spend as much time to get their voice as I did.