Letitia James Quotes

I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.

Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.

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

Hire a staff that's more like you than you are.

We want to make the best television possible. We should be drawing on the entire available pool of storytellers and directors, and we should be expanding that pool and trying to hire the very, very, very best people. That's our job.

Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.

I can't tell you how many resumes we get from business schools across the country from black women and black men and Hispanic women, men, etcetera, who say I'm interested in working for your company because they can see someone at the top who looks like them.

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

That's the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They've got to step up and say, 'We're going to do the right thing. We're going to hire qualified people. We're going to hire the best man for the job regardless of what boosters or anyone else has to say.'

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

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.

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

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

Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity.

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.

I am working for the time when unqualified Blacks, Browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

Is there so great a superfluity of men fit for high duties, that society can afford to reject the service of any competent person?

The law faculty see no reason why any young woman who in respect to character and acquirements fulfilled the Conditions applicable to male students, and who chose to attend the law lectures in good faith for the purpose of becoming acquainted with the laws of her Country, should be denied that privilege.

Universities—and medical schools in particular—should go out of their way to recruit good students of every race from … less affluent backgrounds. Over time, such efforts could produce a greater cohort of doctors who are better prepared to relate to the patients who need them the most.

The big challenge we’ve been confronting over the last two years is, how do we get women and people of color to join the F.B.I. ? That’s been our big trouble, and I’ve described it as a crisis.

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.

I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.