Muhtar Kent Quotes

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

I feel strongly about the need for diversity, and with good reason. I'm from a generation of women that found it exhilarating to shatter the glass ceiling. We viewed obstacles as opportunities and earned our seat at the leadership table.

I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

When women succeed, America succeeds.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Women…are just as capable of being heads of state as men. Some of the most forceful leaders of history, from the time of Queen Elizabeth to Israel’s Golda Meir and India’s Indira Gandhi in our own time, have been women. Mrs. Gandhi, incidentally, is prime minister of 530 million people, more than twice the population of the United States.

Is not Victoria Empress of India? Have we not, among our country-women, persons of as much talent and ability? Is not history full of precedents of women rulers?

If we can blast a woman into space, we can launch a woman into the White House.

Wherever women succeed, businesses will succeed.

When girls can get an education and women can work and run businesses or even serve as elected officials, the world benefits.

There's nothing wrong with women saying that we can be ambitious and that we can want the same things that men have traditionally wanted.

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power.

If Sakshi can be successful in her field, so can any other woman in our country.

There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

I think the most important thing... is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don't want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.

What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women's sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men.