Gene Green Quotes

I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.

Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.

I love working with newcomers.

Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern California, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or since we've grown up here.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.

I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

… avoid the use of language which may discriminate on grounds of race, ethnicity, gender, age or culture.

I learned how to become a team player without losing my individual identity. I learned how to use my championship rings to champion social causes. And though I haven’t played basketball in decades I’m still learning how much my life as an athlete taught me how to live as a man, as an African American and as an American.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

My executive board, my management, my friends, are so ethnically diverse.

I like the Bay Area because it's very diverse, and I'm in touch with the people.

The national team is the best example that integration can work.

You really want a company that's full of people from all these different backgrounds and then allow them to be creative as possible, come together, and come up with great ideas.

The U.S. military may well be the best-integrated large institution on the planet. You have people from every corner of the country, every ethnic background, every walk of life, and we all come together to serve.

It's fun working with smart, young women.

I talk to everyone, but most of the people I hang out with are Latin.

At Harvard, I grew up a lot in terms of being able to deal with different types of people because where I grew up in Arizona, it's predominately white and predominantly Mormon families, so there's not a whole lot of diversity.

Companies and football teams have become successful precisely because of how diverse they are.

Being the captain is a great privilege and a responsibility to lead a great group with different cultures.