After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.
As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.
I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.
I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.
I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a year.
Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
Charley Ford: Hey, Dick, you ever diddled a squaw? Dick Liddil: Shh... Charley Ford: Come on, you can tell me. I've always wanted to lay down with a redskin. Dick Liddil: Well, Charley, there's a feeling that comes over you gettin' inside a woman who...
Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.
We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.
People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.
I see opportunities in all my businesses. And the reason is simple. We thrive on countries that are urbanizing.
We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.
When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.
One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.
