I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core. Anne M. Mulcahy More Quotes by Anne M. Mulcahy More Quotes From Anne M. Mulcahy Educated and productive young people are needed to help # LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world. Anne M. Mulcahy country people world I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty. Anne M. Mulcahy partnership poverty needs My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it. Anne M. Mulcahy editors dad writing People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing. Anne M. Mulcahy mother people ideas Entire families work for Xerox. Anne M. Mulcahy xerox The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people. Anne M. Mulcahy assets cost people If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business. Anne M. Mulcahy determination country children Get face time with the customers. Anne M. Mulcahy customers faces
