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Ruth Porat Quotes

The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1957

Topics

Leader Data You Clear Valuable Most

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.

Year Early Working Assistant Agency

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

Child Poverty Complicated Feeding

I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.

Michael Ignatieff

Politics Transition Always Mexico

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Business Music Best Me Face Thought

Every screenwriter worships at the altar of Robert Towne, and we do.

Stephen McFeely

Altar Every Screenwriter Robert

I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.

Short Attention Go Through Phases

My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.

Life Health Reflection Grateful I Am

When I left Stockton and went to Stanford, I felt I hit the lotto. I did not think I was coming back.

Think Back Coming Left Stanford Did

The thought of a spa treatment is lovely, but I'd be lying there having a massage and worrying about how much I had to do. I'm not very good at relaxing!

Good Thought Lying Massage Lovely

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

Good Anything Like Even Most Much

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

Good Humility People World Think

I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

Friends You Up Get Sure Your

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