38 Quotes by Ruth Porat

If you don't have ample liquidity, and it's not durable, in times of stress, as you're looking for liquidity, you're forced to sell assets at declining prices, which then eats into your capital position, so it becomes this very, very negative cycle. There's no question that liquidity is sacrosanct.

Unless you stay focused on innovation, you can be disintermediated.

Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change.

Innovation happens everywhere.

I hate the term 'work-life balance.' I think it's a setup, and it's trap for all of us.

I stayed at Morgan Stanley for 27 years because it was fun. I kept learning.

I think what Sheryl Sandberg said about the importance of 'leaning in' is very true, but it's not sufficient.

Competition is one click away. Innovation happens everywhere... you better have a culture asking for a voice.

If you're just focused on work, my view is that you'll never get enough back from any organization, no matter how fantastic the role is, and you have to have a full life so that you really get enriched in a lot of different ways, and that can be family and kids. It can be, for others, sports.