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Adena Friedman Quotes
Adena Friedman Quotes
Adena Friedman
American
Businesswoman
Born:
1969
Been
Companies
Financial
Great
World
You
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Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate.
Adena Friedman
Future
You
Yourself
Job
Positioning
Embarking
Nerve-Racking
Clean
Write
Exciting
New
Also
Fresh
New Job
Story
Slate
Starting
You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.
Adena Friedman
You
Business
Risks
Simple
Taking Risks
Taking
Without
Really
Successful
The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.
Adena Friedman
Teacher
Best
Great
Learning
Experience
Rejection
Great Teacher
Make
Learning Experience
Thing
Empowering those around you to be heard and valued makes the difference between a leader who simply instructs and one who inspires.
Adena Friedman
You
Leader
Those
Valued
Inspires
Simply
Between
Empowering
Around
Makes
Heard
Difference
Who
Listen to clients, employees, and peers and stay open to their ideas, feedback, and answers. Doing so is vital to the success of any leader.
Adena Friedman
Success
Feedback
Leader
Employees
Peers
Stay
Vital
Open
Ideas
Clients
Answers
Doing
Any
Listen
Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.
Adena Friedman
Life
Rejection
Everybody
Some
Through
Nobody
Feels
Knows
Without
How
Gets
Experiencing
Form
Which
Why
Awful
Rejection should ignite soul-searching, and the soul-searching must be absolutely honest.
Adena Friedman
Rejection
Must
Absolutely
Should
Ignite
Honest
You never stop learning.
Adena Friedman
You
Learning
Never
Never Stop
Stop
I've always been on the business side - running P&L and working with clients.
Adena Friedman
Business
Side
Running
Clients
Always
Been
Working
Business Side
We have the Nasdaq private market. But we also want to make sure that every investor has an opportunity to ultimately join in growth and the success of these great companies that we have that have been formed in the United States.
Adena Friedman
Success
Great
Opportunity
Every
Market
States
Join
Investor
Also
Make
Sure
Private
Been
Ultimately
Want
Formed
Companies
United
United States
Growth
If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.
Adena Friedman
You
Better
Opportunity
Someone
Give
Gives
He
Maximize
Wants
Next
You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions, and things that really allow us to blend the best of technology and the human brain.
Adena Friedman
Best
You
Technology
Management
Financial
Judgment
Risk
Risk Management
Allow
Investment
Blend
Involved
Terms
Industry
Brain
Lot
Human
Human Brain
Decisions
Us
Really
Things
Need
By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.
Adena Friedman
Danger
Definition
Risk
Businesses
The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.
Adena Friedman
World
Innovative
Our
Proof
Risk-Taking
Drives
Economy
Most
Prudent
List
Us
Choose
Businesses
Forward
Companies
Among
Entry-level jobs are excellent opportunites to educate young women about the realities of the financial world and can prepare them for the next move up within the firm or another area of the financial industry.
Adena Friedman
Women
World
Financial
Young
Jobs
About
Area
Excellent
Firm
Industry
Another
Within
Educate
Up
Move
Realities
Them
Young Women
Next
Prepare
Regardless of how or where you enter Wall Street, use your inherent skills and strengths to succeed.
Adena Friedman
You
Enter
How
Wall
Wall Street
Where
Regardless
Succeed
Skills
Use
Your
Inherent
Street
Strengths
It's important to experience as many parts of an organization as you can - because some day, you may have the chance to lead that organization.
Adena Friedman
Day
You
Experience
Organization
Important
Some
Lead
Parts
Because
May
Many
Chance
A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.
Adena Friedman
Better
Leader
Willing
Idea
New
She
Learns
New Information
Hears
Refine
Malleable
Listens
Information
Views
Who
Actions
Her
Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.
Adena Friedman
Time
Husband
Spending
Kids
Working
You can get wrapped up in that megamerger mentality.
Adena Friedman
You
Wrapped
Mentality
Up
Get
The financial service industry has an image issue.
Adena Friedman
Service
Financial
Industry
Issue
Image
If you really think about the fabric of the United States, or the finance of any economy, finance is a true underpinning of what makes the economy great - if it can be done successfully, responsibly, and with a client orientation.
Adena Friedman
Finance
Great
You
Think
States
Responsibly
Fabric
About
True
Economy
Client
Makes
Any
Done
Really
Successfully
Orientation
United
United States
To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.
Adena Friedman
Best
You
Business
Financial
Passion
Markets
Financial Markets
Running
About
True
Industry
Passionate
CEO
The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.
Adena Friedman
Me
Change
Organization
Drive
Strategy
Ability
Excites
Influence
Create
Really
I was always first in, last out, but not inefficiently.
Adena Friedman
First
Out
Always
Last
One of the things I liked about the movie 'Minority Report' was they used a lot of futurists as consultants to really try to understand what the world really would be like in 50 years.
Adena Friedman
World
Try
Minority
One Of The Things
Would
Would-Be
About
Consultants
Like
Liked
Understand
Years
Lot
Report
Movie
Really
Used
Things
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