Mary Callahan Erdoes — American Businesswoman born on August 13, 1967,

Mary Callahan Erdoes is Chief Executive Officer of J.P. Morgan Asset Management (a division of JPMorgan Chase), a global leader in investment management and private banking with more than $2.2 trillion in assets under supervision. In addition to being a member of JPMorgan Chase's Operating and Executive Committees, Erdoes leads the firm's strategic partnership with Highbridge Capital Management and Gávea Investimentos. As of 2014, she is listed as the 66th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes... (wikipedia)

There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.
The U.S. has to realize it's got so much going for it. Let's just get ourselves to come together as a team - one team running the country, helping that country to get itself back on stable footing, which then cascades to the rest of the world.
If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person.
You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.
My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.