Ursula Burns

“this is a friendly to trade a friendly to growth Administration it's also one that it seems like there'll be a little bit less attention on the details and a lot more like the shiny object in front so businesses know how to play in that world very very well”

— From Paul Keary and Ursula Burns on Teneo's CEO & Investor Outlook Survey | Teneo Insights Podcasr, Teneo (December 19, 2024)

“there are there is a reality that some of the things that we are targeting the United States is targeting president the Trump Administration is targeting to tax there are no options to get anywhere else if you want an advanced chip you can say all you like about whether these guys were good bad or indiff you can buy it...”

— From Paul Keary and Ursula Burns on Teneo's CEO & Investor Outlook Survey | Teneo Insights Podcasr, Teneo (December 19, 2024)

“The corporate model is white male and we're conforming to the structure built by them. We're preparing the world for them because if we don't do something that changes the old paradigm which is there's a playing field white men laid the field out, there are rules they decided on the game, they wrote the rules, there ar...”

— From mPower Moments: On Reaching Your Full Potential with Ursula Burns, mbamortgage (October 09, 2024)

“We have less rights today than we did last year. We are thought of differently today than even last year. The rhetoric is absolutely we need to be cared for, we need to be protected, we can't have independent thought. When did that happen? Five minutes ago I guess.”

— From mPower Moments: On Reaching Your Full Potential with Ursula Burns, mbamortgage (October 09, 2024)

“I think that the racial reckoning is more than just a racial reckoning it's a societal reckoning around the structure of our society which is one that has created a mass divide a massive divide between this small number of people who have a ton and this very large number of people who have less than a ton and a large n...”

— From Ursula Burns, Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir, C-SPAN (July 23, 2024)

“We have to figure out a way to make sure we keep an eye on the fact that we take care of ourselves and then we take care of others and the others are generally close to your family then you take care of others. It's not I take care of myself and then hoard all the rest of it when I see the other guys dying on the road...”

— From Ursula Burns, Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir, C-SPAN (July 23, 2024)

“I think it's important to not think about this as a you know the investors are right the CEOs are wrong I think it's perspective and time frame and and the real pressures of the day-to-day expectations of the two different jobs right on average overtime investors have to get it right right it's not only their company i...”

— From Paul Keary and Ursula Burns on Teneo's CEO & Investor Outlook Survey | Teneo Insights Series, Teneo (December 19, 2023)

“I think that you know we we poor Milton fredman has has been boxed into like one thought process from this guy which I don't think it was the case there were other constituents that he spoke about the one that one out overall generally was the shareholder so companies have all the boards that I currently sit on and man...”

— From Paul Keary and Ursula Burns on Teneo's CEO & Investor Outlook Survey | Teneo Insights Series, Teneo (December 19, 2023)

“68% of the CEOs in that we have surveyed said that M&A is high on their list, and therefore we expect to see a sizable uptick in M&A in 2024.”

— From Expect to see a sizable uptick in M&A in 2024, says Teneo's Ursula Burns, CNBC Television (December 19, 2023)

“80% of CEOs say that they'll continue to invest in deglobalization, globalization, whatever the word that we want to use is. 80%. Said that they're focused on supply chain, flexibility, and resilience and so therefore, they are moving either talent or supply lines or partnerships more spread out along the world.”

— From Expect to see a sizable uptick in M&A in 2024, says Teneo's Ursula Burns, CNBC Television (December 19, 2023)

“I think women are different than men and that's a good thing. And by the way, it's a good thing for the world, it's a good thing for men, it's a damn good thing for women. And the differences between women and men should be celebrated.”

— From Ursula Burns Interview: Her Path to Xerox's Top, Interview Archive (January 01, 2013)

“I decided that I was failing so miserably in any previous definition that I was going to redefine it. My definition is over your life, over your life, do you have a balance of work and family, work and outside work? Like in any period of time, in a year, in any period of time, I fail any of them, you know, either of th...”

— From Ursula Burns Interview: Her Path to Xerox's Top, Interview Archive (January 01, 2013)

“First is don't shy away from science, technology, engineering and math. It doesn't matter where you are in your life, your career, these skills, skill basics in these areas are required for advancement in just about anything.”

— From Hello Women 2023 - Orange CEO Christel Heydmann and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, orangejobs (March 03, 2023)

“Number two speak up. Women often sit quietly even if they know the answer, even if they know better than the men in the room, they sit quietly and don't participate actively and don't take their rightful place in the conversation, in decision making, in the power structures of companies, schools, organizations in gener...”

— From Hello Women 2023 - Orange CEO Christel Heydmann and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, orangejobs (March 03, 2023)

“I always said where is here exactly is here where we sell our stuff because if that's the case we should probably make it everywhere in the world is here where we earn most of our profits or generate most of our revenues that should be around the world as well so this idea of here is a narrow perspective on what a busi...”

— From ECNY Events - Ursula Burns, The Economic Club of New York (February 13, 2023)