Angela Braly quotes
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“Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?”
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“That's a good question. I think there should be many other women CEO s. It feels natural to be a CEO of WellPoint, and part of the reason may be that women may be drawn to healthcare as a profession. Women make 70 percent of all healthcare decisions. Women are currently available-ready, willing, and able-to be CEOs of major Fortune 50 or 500 companies. And I expect them to emerge as such over the days, weeks, and months ahead.”
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“The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.”
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“People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at that point.”
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“Frankly, health care and politics are "inextricably intertwined."”
-- Angela BralySource : "WellPoint CEO: Wasted Opportunity for Real Reform". Interview with Joseph Rago, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2010.
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“I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.”
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“The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.”
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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
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“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
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Source : "The Pasteboard Past" by Witold Rybczynski, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1997.
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“We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.”
Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
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“When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.”
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“I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.”
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“Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has apparently just slipped across the border into Pakistan.”
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