Kirsten Green Quotes

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

ICICI has been a meritocracy. So, a huge amount a lot of responsibilities, big roles, challenges, have been given to women, not because they are men or women or so on, but they were just given to people who have - who the organization believes has the capability to perform.

We actually probably do nothing very special for women. But what we do in a very special manner is to remain an absolute gender-neutral, merit-based organization.

The focus has to be about making good work. I don't ever want to be hired for a job because I'm a woman. And I don't ever want to be recognized for a job because I'm a woman.

I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

Ability is sexless.

Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.

I want to do right, apart from my gender - I want to do right as a campaign manager.

I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve it... Whether my hair is going to be blue or purple, people should be judged on how well they do the job and deliver results and whether they do it the right way. That's how I like to be judged; most people are like that.

If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.

I don't want people saying, 'Should we get a female director?' I want to hear, 'Should we get a great director for this movie?'

A director is a director is a director. Man or woman - it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter if I am the lead or a man is the lead actor in a film. What really matters to me is that I give my 100 per cent to my job.

Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.

'Ki And Ka' in a very sweet way says that if you have talent, then gender doesn't matter.

The last reason I want to be hired is because of my gender. I want to be hired because you trust me, because of my potential, because you believe that I know basketball, and we go and we build from there.

Men have realized that when it comes to the workplace, both the sexes have equal stake because jobs are given based on talent and skill.

It's about hard work and not gender.

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

What I love about the UFC, it doesn't matter if you're a girl or guy. It doesn't matter what color skin, what religion you are, where you're from, they give you the same money and they give you the same star. It's up to you where you're gonna be.