Abigail P Johnson Quotes
Abigail P Johnson Quotes
I’m a believer. I’m one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.
I love this stuff – bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology – and what the future holds.
Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don’t work, and you’ve just got to just say: Let’s grind this baby to a halt.
Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you’re perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
Don’t assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don’t like surprises. I don’t even like good surprises.
Independent thinking is one of the things most valued in an investment professional.
On career and family – “Trust your instincts.
I knew that I wanted to have a family but I knew that I wanted a career. I wanted it to be exciting, fast paced and challenging and something that would last for decades.
I am in a traditional financial services business – but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?
Investment management is an excellent career for women because it is based on your intellectual capability, your ability to do analyses, your results are very quantifiable and nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours.
Independent thinking is one of the things most valued in an investment professional.
There’s a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there’s a time when one has to step up… to set the organization back on the right direction.
The answer and the right answer for you and your organization might not be something that has been done before.
If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me? Once you are pregnant, there is no if. That child, though tiny and in an early stage of development, already exists!
Never trust a decision you don’t want your mother to know about. How’s that for a brilliant insight?
Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.
Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measure progress towards those goals because I don’t like surprises. I don’t even like good surprises.
Lots of people will give you advice… and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
When things are not going the way they need to go, there’s a time when one has to step up to set the organization back on the right direction.
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Abigail P Johnson Famous Quotes
Don’t doubt yourself. Keep at it. Stay looking ahead, stay committed and stay true to yourself.
We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation… that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
a relentless focus on continuing to try to improve everything you do.
Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.
Abigail P Johnson Quotes about Advice
Lots of people will give you advice… and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
Abigail P Johnson Quotes about goal
I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don’t like surprises. I don’t even like good surprises.
Best Quotes by Abigail P Johnson
Lots of people will give you advice… and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
