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I've always been a very competitive person.
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Competitive Person
Always Person Been
Competitive
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I've always tried to seek out environments with excitement.
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Excitement
Environments
Seek
Tried
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Small businesses create half of the jobs in the private sector.
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Private Sector
Businesses
Sector
Small Businesses
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My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.
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Plans
Public Service
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I say this all the time: Everyone can make a conscious choice to be a leader.
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Conscious
Leader
Choice
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Regular feedback is one of the hardest things to drive through an organization.
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Feedback
Organization
Drive
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You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.
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Formal
Context
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If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.
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Businesses
Independently
Make A Difference
Owned
Small Businesses
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I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.
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Real World
Prepare
The Real World
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I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.
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Boston
Classmates
Enjoyed
Harvard
Joined
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At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.
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Leadership
Integrity
Assess
Strongly
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Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.
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Commitment
Done
Enough
Execution
Focus
Follow Through
Through
Follow
Something
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There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place.
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Credit
Credit Card
Reputation
Card
Reforms
Policies
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For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.
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Access
Bills
Fund
Big Problem
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I think what's important to understand is if the United States hits the debt ceiling and is unable to pay its debts, the consequences will be immediate and dramatic.
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Debt Ceiling
Dramatic
Ceiling
Immediate
Unable
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What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.
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Discussion
Increasingly
Relating
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My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.
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Accountability
Compromise
Solutions
Demonstrate
Engage
Face Reality
Principle
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I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.
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Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Exposure
Focused
Vehicle
Civil
Rights Movement
Substantial
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My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.
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Common Ground
Crises
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Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused diversified business model will be more successful.
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Focused
Pursue
Successful
Business Will More
Business Model
Call
Companies
Diversified
Model
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For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'
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Compromise
Consistency
Difficult
Felt
Integrity
Issues
Ask
Words
Actions
Questions
Confront
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Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around us. It also offered an opportunity to study with the brightest students and to test myself against the best.
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Faculty
Harvard
Study
Brightest
Change The World
Helped
Shaped
Offered
Provided
Test
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For me, one of the lessons from 9/11 is that you have to give the organization context for how you're acting, and you've got to communicate constantly, in this case particularly with all the changes that were occurring in the financial marketplace and in the economy.
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Communicate
Lessons
Marketplace
Context
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There was a strong focus on performance and respect for people. And one of the points that my father always made was that with all the challenges and obstacles and barriers, the one thing you can control is your performance. And that is one thing I have tried to adhere to throughout my career.
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Barriers
Obstacles
Adhere
The One Thing
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