Ursula Burns
Ursula Burns
Ursula M. Burnsserves as Chairmanand CEOof Xerox. As such, she is the first black-American woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company. She is also the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a Fortune 500 company, having succeeded Anne Mulcahy as CEO of Xerox. In 2014, Forbes rated her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
Date of Birth20 September 1958
CountryUnited States of America
want transforming
I want to stop transforming and just start being.
people listening said
I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
world stuck company
The world is changing. We all know this. And as that world changes, if you don't transform your company, you're stuck.
way easy best-way
The best way to change it is to do it, right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
team hard-work thinking
I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.
believe achieve empowered
Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.
dream strong work-ethic
Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.