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Abigail Pierrepont Johnson (born December 19, 1961) is an American billionaire businesswoman, heiress and chief executive of Fidelity Investments. Her family and their affliates own approximately 40% of Fidelity Investments, which was founded by her grandfather, Edward C.
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You have to be a worrier. Every business has risks, and companies that feel comfortable are probably not paying enough attention
Keep moving, don’t get hung up on being a perfectionist
Every day you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you’re perceived to be doing, your job is never done
We are in the midst of a major transition that takes advantage of technology to deliver better service
There are a lot of great reasons why anybody—but particularly women—should consider doing something like being an analyst
Based on everybody’s contributions about what they see changing, what can we try that would be something new and different
Sometimes, all it takes is one person to believe in you
That sense of accountability is really, really critical
I think a liberal arts education is actually a great background for our industry. I feel that really strongly
I got the stock-picking bug,she says. I enjoyed the intellectual challenge, and I liked interacting with the fund managers
I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don’t like surprises
Some of them are good ideas, but at the wrong time, and we just move on to the next one. And some of them have to be reworked multiple times
I was responsible for filling out the forms to correctly put in order the transactions that they were requesting
HBS was more important preparation for the role that I’m in now than I possibly could have appreciated at the time
Having the confidence to revisit what I’d written and spend time in the moment helped me to tell a better story. Sometimes it’s the smallest details that bring a character to life
Every day you get up and the world is changing, your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there
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