Belinda Johnson Quotes
As a company grows, things get stuck at the top. It can be a bottleneck.
Johnson, Belinda. Interview. Forbes, 15 Feb. 2018.
The business and financial institutions actually follow the statements and actions of an administration and its officials very closely, seeking “signals” of what action the government might take in the future. The actions that they take today may not become operational for several years (like building a new factory), so they try very hard to find out what the business and economic climate might be in the years to come. Sperling, like other very sophisticated economic advisers, realized that the President and his administration can often do little directly to influence the economy, but they can control what they say and the actions that they do take, to alter the perception of the economists, financiers, and business people throughout the nation.
Many feel that the same is true in politics. The PR and image experts and the fund raisers are very helpful to political candidates, but between maintaining the message and image for the marketing staff and not offending major donors the finance people have obtained, there is very little that a politician can do that is innovative, both before and after his election as the image staff are in constant operation and in the last decades fund raising for the next election consumes a huge part of each day even after the candidate is elected.
The Presidnt Elect illustrated in this quote how informal he was. Many people saw that as being acccessible; others saw it as a sign of no organziation or sense of structure that is needed for any high level political job, much less the presidency.
Belinda Johnson is an American attorney and business executive. She currently serves on the boards of Airbnb and PayPal.
