72 Quotes by Susan Rice

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it’s hard to excel at anything that you don’t love.

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We’ve seen a society that many people thought couldn’t withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

One can’t erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

Once you’ve learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company’s assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset.

I am very aware of being black and female because that’s what I am.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country’s interests.