Ursula Burns Quotes

Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

The world is changing. We all know this. And as that world changes, if you don't transform your company, you're stuck.

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

Where you are is not who you are

My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

You don’t have to be at every volleyball game. We can’t guilt ourselves.

Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.