Quotes from Adena Friedman

If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.

I really believe that I've been a better parent from being a working mother.

It's important to experience as many parts of an organization as you can - because some day, you may have the chance to lead that organization.

Listen to clients, employees, and peers and stay open to their ideas, feedback, and answers. Doing so is vital to the success of any leader.

To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

One of many strengths that I often see in successful women on Wall Street is a responsible balance between risk taking and risk mitigation - the ability to assess situations smartly and make the right medium-to-long-term decisions without being lured into reckless, short-term profit-taking.

Regardless of how or where you enter Wall Street, use your inherent skills and strengths to succeed.

I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.

I've always been on the business side - running P&L and working with clients.

We believe behavioral science, cognitive computing, and machine intelligence are essential to a successful, holistic surveillance offering and critical to efficient and effective organizational compliance with an increasingly intricate global regulatory environment.

My favorite kick is the roundhouse. I'm very capable of kicking a tall person in the head with a roundhouse.

By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.

We tax our companies more than any other country in the world, so we really are not really encouraging businesses to grow and expand, and over time, that's going to make it so that we diminish our role in the global economy.

We definitely are a supporter of lowering corporate income tax and managing through the reprehension of cash for companies because we do think that'll give them more ammunition to grow their businesses and expand what they do.

Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.

The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.

New products, new markets, new investors, and new ways of doing things are the lifeblood of growth. And while each innovation carries potential risk, businesses that don't innovate will eventually diminish.

Nasdaq is investing in the technologies, talent, and capabilities that solve the complex challenges our clients face.

The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.

A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.

If you're not making use of even the most routine assignment to learn something, realize that many of your colleagues and coworkers are.

I just think of myself as a hard-working person who loves my job.

In 1998, Nasdaq started a project called Next Nasdaq - or what Nasdaq was going to become - and they decided to handpick some of the up-and-comers. I was chosen as one of the people. It was a great opportunity for me and, I guess, a reflection of the fact that I was seen as someone who was developing her career pretty well.