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Marjorie Scardino
36 quotes
“Try to work on something that has a purpose.”
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“We tried, we failed, but we learnt an incredibly important lesson”
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“If you fail, you don’t die. Once you realise that, everything is possible.”
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“I knew very little about public companies at that point.”
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“I had analysts in on the first day and I could feel them thinking, 'Who is this person?' and I started wondering, 'Who is this person?”
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“I don't even use that word because, first of all, that's what old people do.”
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“That's what you do after dinner.”
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“I just felt like it was time.”
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“Time for me, time for the company.”
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“You know how the world's changed over the last 16 years, and we've got a lot of amazing opportunities but they require very long-term choices and long-term plans”
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“Although we won a Pulitzer Prize, we sold the paper to someone else for a dollar and then they broke it up and threw it away.”
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“The experience taught her a valuable lesson.”
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“I learnt then that you can fail and you don't die.”
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“Pearson will still behave as it has in the past, which is to review all the time what the best assets are.”
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“It will be careful in deciding how to handle it.”
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“It will not be religious about it.”
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“When I left Cambridge for what was then the top name in mergers and acquisitions in the City.”
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“I'd never heard of the glass ceiling, still less the concrete one.”
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“I'd studied what I wanted (philosophy and history) while ensuring I did the maths for arts students course.”
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“The pre fast track entrance week at a big American corporation and a research job in the House of Commons.”
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“I talked my way into a transfer on good expat terms to New York.”
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“There, shackled to a spreadsheet at midnight before an early morning flight to somewhere like Oklahoma.”
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“It dawned on me that being on call for difficult corporate finance clients day and night was family unfriendly.”
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“Nobody used that word, and I did not then have children but I had noticed there was only one female director in the entire department.”
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“I took a pay cut and went into newspapers.”
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“Much depends on what you call a top job.”
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“Someone like Chrissie Rucker of The White Company, who creates a successful chain of shops, doesn't have the power to shape law that a senior judge has but she may create jobs for hundreds and significant wealth, as we report on the opposite page.”
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“Well I think there are three dynamics that have really been at work at Pearson's this year and a few years before this that have changed our fortunes.”
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“The ubiquity of digital across Pearson, not only in how we make things, but how we sell them and how we deliver them to our customers.”
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“Another is the business mix.”
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“We are just far more focused on businesses that have a lot to do with each other, and that are consistent.”
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“We are a large education business and the FT and Penguin certainly play into that very nicely.”
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“Emerging markets, our exposure to emerging markets, emerging markets are now about 10% of all of Pearson's revenue and growing at more than 20% a year.”
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“Those are markets where we have not only great demographic characteristics but we can use our scale.”
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“We can take things that we've made in one country and move them to another country.”
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“All three of those pieces together have given us fundamentally different financial characteristics”
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