Penny Pritzker Quotes

#1. Businesses need to define what they need so training providers can offer up the right training.

Penny Pritzker

#2. I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

Andrew Eldritch

#3. I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

Penny Pritzker

#4. I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.

Penny Pritzker

#5. I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

Matthew Henry

#6. Was often told what I should do. He expected honesty and integrity in all aspects of life, but I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people's names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected.

Nicholas Sparks

#7. I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Henry Ford

#8. I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

Penny Pritzker

#9. We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

Desmond Tutu

#10. Sometimes you don't realize how dependent you are on just a few people, and if they disappear, suddenly you can be thrown on your own resources, which may be limited, and you're really in a fix. So I think that's authentic to the experience that it might be very lonely.

Whit Stillman

#11. I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#12. Women get 77 cents on the dollar that men get for the same job.

Penny Pritzker

#13. I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!

Aly Raisman

#14. I grew up in the motel business, and it evolved into hotels.

Penny Pritzker

#15. The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday.

Colum McCann

#16. What I've learned is that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and keep some facts to themselves. They just don't give you the full picture, and that's very worrisome to me.

Penny Pritzker