Quotes About Progress

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.

Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

Simply put, girls and women are the keys that will unlock sustainable development. They are also at the center of the healthier and more resilient societies we desire.

I joined a very male-dominated profession back in 1986. I wanted to work with big multinational Fortune 500 companies, but you don't come into the firm and automatically get those. So, quite frankly, a key to my success was that I found male mentors and male sponsors. I think some women are afraid to say that.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are still the best-dressed.

I'm hoping to see some minorities in executive offices in positions of power, people who see the merit of projects with minority themes. That may or may not happen.

If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.'

It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

I want all Egyptian people to follow my way to improve themselves. We are a huge country. We have many children. I want everyone to dream and feel they can do something.

There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

But crucially, the apprenticeship schemes benefit apprentices themselves, who get a good foundation for a career, and it helps to open doors and break down barriers that some people face.

I think companies need to take more ownership over the gender gap themselves because if everybody does that, then overall, it will improve.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.

If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

First be best, then be first.