Bruce Nordstrom Quotes

I think that if companies build for diversity from the beginning from the ground up, that's definitely the ideal state for how to build diversity into your company.

As you think about the workforce of the future, women and minorities are such an important part of that future.

From casting to hiring to awards races like the Emmys, taking active steps toward inclusion will make for richer stories, a stronger democracy, and a better world.

Businesses perform better when you have diversity of view in your senior leadership positions. This is not just the right thing to do socially; it's the right thing to do for your business.

I've always sought to give opportunities to women, to people who come from a different background, to add diversity to the mix - in that I think it makes our work better.

We decided a number of years ago we could do a better job at diversity. It was going to be one of the growth areas available to us. There are a variety of initiatives to create more awareness with African-Americans and Hispanics and anyone else.

I think the people that we hire in government should be just as diverse as the communities we represent.

While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful.

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.

I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.

Cultivating diversity in all its forms - of our content, products, and people - is one of our most important business imperatives.

Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.

One of the management imperatives in the '90s is managing diversity. Whatever the organization, when the constituents of that organization look at the board and management staff, they need to find themselves.

'Diverse' shouldn't be an actionable thing - it should just be.

The people in the decision-making positions need to be thinking differently about who to hire, and looking more unsparingly at their choices. Why give this person a break over that person? Why give this person a second chance over that person? I do think that's where gender comes into play.

I fully believe that representation and inclusion matters... and that's why on all of our films, we've featured diverse casts, and that actually is true for 'Kubo' as well.

Diversity is not only color, but it also includes individuals with disabilities.

Diversity is not just the right thing to do but right for business.

While there is still certainly much more work that needs to be done, Lyft actually believes in increasing diversity and inclusion within their workforce, and also, they believe in being a strong supporter of that in the community.

As the editor at the Village Voice, I always tried to find writers of colour.