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born 1947 United States

Dame Marjorie Scardino (née Morris; born 25 January 1947) is an American-born British business executive. She is the former CEO of Pearson PLC.

United States
Businesswomen

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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.

I don't even use that word because, first of all, that's what old people do.

I'd never heard of the glass ceiling, still less the concrete one.

There, shackled to a spreadsheet at midnight before an early morning flight to somewhere like Oklahoma.

We are just far more focused on businesses that have a lot to do with each other, and that are consistent.

We are a large education business and the FT and Penguin certainly play into that very nicely.

The pre fast track entrance week at a big American corporation and a research job in the House of Commons.

I learnt then that you can fail and you don't die.

It will be careful in deciding how to handle it.

The experience taught her a valuable lesson.

Much depends on what you call a top job.

I talked my way into a transfer on good expat terms to New York.

If you fail, you don’t die. Once you realise that, everything is possible.

Those are markets where we have not only great demographic characteristics but we can use our scale.

We can take things that we've made in one country and move them to another country.

When I left Cambridge for what was then the top name in mergers and acquisitions in the City.

It dawned on me that being on call for difficult corporate finance clients day and night was family unfriendly.

I knew very little about public companies at that point.

I took a pay cut and went into newspapers.

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marjorie Scardino (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.