You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance. – Mary Callahan Erdoes
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. – Mary Callahan Erdoes
If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person. – Mary Callahan Erdoes
Clients are becoming more global; they’re realizing that markets are more interconnected. It’s no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It’s everybody asking for everything. – Mary Callahan Erdoes
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. – Mary Callahan Erdoes
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. – Mary Callahan Erdoes
