52 Quotes by Ursula Burns

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    The best way to change it is to do it, right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

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    I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

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    I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

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    Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

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    My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

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    Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.

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    If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, youll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.

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    Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.

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    My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'

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