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.
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GINNI ROMETTY If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japa... ANNE M. MULCAHY I'm on the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the largest 100-odd companies in the country. Most o... HENRY SILVERMAN It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it. ERIQ LA SALLE It will become a meaningful company. We're up in the air about what our ultimate plan is, because at... GLENN PAYNE It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA If every company becomes a technology company, business models and transitions are going to occur. F... JOHN T. CHAMBERS I'm involved in everything from a nutraceutical company to a pharmaceutical company to a medical... MONTEL WILLIAMS Without Annette, we wouldn't be as good as we are today, which is pretty good. A small company like ... BILL DANA If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now... HOWARD SCHULTZ I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum. IVAN GLASENBERG It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for com... STEVE GUTTENBERG By the time we've made it, we've had it. MALCOLM FORBES You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is a... KATHRYN MINSHEW We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL It's a pleasant surprise, ... It's positive for the company. Mike was instrumental as a turnaround p... MARK SUE My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off ... RANDY FALCO What lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door. TOM ALTHOUSE I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social ... MUHAMMAD YUNUS It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepr... KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW VMWare, as you know, remains a public company, and Secure Works is also a public company. And it'... MICHAEL DELL In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this compa... KAREN KAIN Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Profitability was thought of as undefined in the past. Many venture investors were willing to accept... ANDY WEISSMAN I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. 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WEILL Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian... BARTON GELLMAN We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a... CARLOS GHOSN You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders... AERIN LAUDER I got 'Delhi Belly' and 'Badmaash Company' because people from the production house ... VIR DAS I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum... STUART ROSE I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similar... ALAN KAY I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-Am... GEORGE TAKEI Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get f... PAUL GRAHAM While Delta continued to post significant losses in January, the company is making progress in stabi... ED BASTIAN Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment ... MA JUN I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19... TIM FERRISS I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19... TIMOTHY FERRISS Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It's that money that we used to build ... DAVID TALBOT When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had... HANS VESTBERG We want to thank Bob Rice for his many years of service to the Company, as a founder, CEO, and Chair... 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ANNE FRANK I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend. ANNE BISHOP A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo... ANNE RICE Quite collected at cocktail parties, meanwhile in my head I'm undergoing open-heart surger... ANNE SEXTON It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot o... ANNE LAMOTT Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon ANNE BISHOP It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw... ANNE RICE When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without... ANNE SPOLLEN Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:... ANNE BRONTë Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. ANNE SULLIVAN ... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra... ANNE PERRY The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up. ANNE SEXTON I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is ... ANNE SULLIVAN Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you ... ANNE FRANK I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is ... ANNE FRANK There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ... ANNE RICE The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and... ANNE RICE I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, roma... ANNE FRANK Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what... ANNE BYRHHE In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection... ANNE RICE If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other peo... ANNE FRANK And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. ANNE RIDLER Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt. ANNE RICE Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ANNE RICE What I don't understand about you is this, she said. You hold to your old belief in goodness with a ... ANNE RICE