Sandra Lerner Quotes

#1. Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

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#2. Social media is an information channel; it's like radio or TV ... In Cisco, we made a lot of money on public protocol. I think the social media model replicates that protocol.

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#3. The venture community is largely male.

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#4. The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

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#5. I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

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#6. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days, and I get on with the business of living.

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#7. We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat.

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#8. When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

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#9. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

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#10. At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.

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#11. If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate religion and corporate self-image that makes it very difficult for them to execute in different areas.

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#12. I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.

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#13. I always thought that if someone invested in your business, that meant he or she believed in it.

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#14. I've never really seen other people spend other people's money wisely.

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#15. What is good for you is not necessarily good for the company, and vice versa.

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#16. I have a few toys. But I live very simply.

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