The 49+ Anne M. Mulcahy Quotes

Get Face Time With The Customers.

By The Time I Stepped Down As Xerox's Ceo In 2009 - And As Chairman In January 2010 - Xerox Had Become The Vibrant, Profitable And Revitalized Company That It Still Is Today. What Made The Difference Was A Strong Turnaround Plan, Dedicated People And A Firm Commitment From Company Leaders.

The Hardware Business Is All About Per-unit Manufacturing Cost And Functionality. The Services Business Is Less Asset-intensive And More Dependent On People.

People Ask My Mother Whether She Had Any Idea That I'd Be Ceo Of A Company Some Day, And She Would Say, 'absolutely Not. Totally Out Of The Realm Of Possibility.' There Was Certainly Nothing That Would Have Been Very Predictable In My Upbringing.

Boards Without Women - Blacklist Those Suckers. It's 2011. They've Had The Time - It's Significant That They Don't Have Women.

My Dad Was An Editor And A Writer, And That's Really Where I Would Have Liked To Have Gone. But The Genetic Link Was Not Intact There, So I Wound Up Going Into Business. But I Love To Write, Still. I'm Not A Great Writer, But I Enjoy It.

I Left Xerox For The Non-profit Sector Because It Was Clear To Me That Only Public/private Partnerships Can Pull Off A Turnaround Plan At The Scale We Need To Tackle Global Poverty.

I'm Not Formal And I'm Impatient. So I Think My Team Would Say That When She Starts Tapping Her Pen And The Leg Starts Moving Quickly, That It's Time To Move On. I'm Not Good At Long, Drawn-out Kinds Of Sessions.

Entire Families Work For Xerox.

I Worked In Sales. It Was Definable, It Had A Quantifiable Approach To Accomplishment That Had A Great Deal Of Importance To Me. It Had A Degree Of Clarity That I Loved. And Of Course, It Was Core.

If We Could Muster The Same Determination And Sense Of Responsibility That Saves A Country Like Japan - Or A Company Like Xerox - Then Investing To Save Women And Children Who Are Dying In The Developing World Would Be Very Good Business.

If You're A Global Company You Are Going To Have Jobs Overseas. The Reality Is If We Start Taxing Those Jobs At A Rate That Makes Them Noncompetitive In Those Markets, The Reality Is That We're Going To Lose Business.