Women on Top 2011 Award Winners Video

I would be most passionate about making people feel good.

I am most passionate about the people of the Mississippi Delta. The people of the Delta are not only nice, expressive people of true Southern hospitality. We are the warmest place and the most friendly place that you will find.

The part that I'm most passionate about is cooking for people.

Actually getting to make the clothes which I feel is about 10% of the time because production and putting on a show and everything tends to take up a lot of time.

Making great films with great [unknown] element and telling great stories.

I love the idea of spreading the positive influence that Oprah and [unknown] has had on me to other people.

I join the job to protect people from the predators and the parasites and the selfish people in the world. They are out there.

Making real life applicable devices that will actually enable scientists to do their research and to be able to bring them out into the field to do biomedical task in otherwise- that are otherwise not possible.

I'm really passionate about encouraging young women to consider a carrier in Engineering and especially Automotive Engineering. I just think a lot of young girls aren't really aware that these opportunities exist and they're not presented to them in high school.

My people, I'm in-charge of a 170 personnel in my squadron and basically as the commander of the squadron, the people are my focus.

Stay really positive. Stay passionate and dream really big.

How do you spell success? W-O-R-K. You know, you have to work really hard to be successful and so it's something I've always carried with me.

I don't think it's a- boil it down to one sentence but more the support of people along the way that not only could I do what I'm doing now but that I could be a woman doing Math and Science and be great at it and not have to worry about what if that was an acceptable thing or a regular thing.

To follow my own path and ignore what other people think I should do.

The best piece of professional advice that I've been given is that you cannot save the world in 1 day.

To sketch, sketch, sketch. Sketch everything. Sketch as much as I can. Sketch you know, something in a million different ways and it'll become clear where the collection's going.

We really need to like the people that work for you and want good things for them.

When I do give advice, the one thing I tell people is to make sure that your values are in line with what you spend the majority of your waking hours doing.

It's much easier to stand out from a crowd when there's only a handful of women being open to constructive criticism and being really professional and treating people like you wanna be treated.

Listen and pulls lots of sources of information so you're not swayed by anyone- really strong personality.

To step out of your comfort zone. It's very easy to sit back and [unknown] than listen and take good notes but you really need to speak up.

Continue what you are doing and that, just keep on doing and never give up.

Never give up.

Don't quit.

Know that if you're truly passionate about something, you keep working hard that you're going to achieve what your goals are.

The financial difficulties of people in my community.

When is gonna be the day that no one shows up to my restaurant?

The underlying reality of poverty in the world.

I think all of us probably worry about whether our lives have an impact and we'll make a difference in this world.

The one thing that keeps me up at night is really making sure that our portfolio companies are successful and that they have the tools to be successful.

I am most proud of my team.

My firm.

My Metropolitan Opera debut.

Really proud of my staff.

I'm most proud of my family.

Graduating Valedictorian of the Police Academy.

Winning Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation award.

I'm proud of a lot. I have to say I feel really lucky and blessed and humbled.

I like to say, fail fast and fail often and get up again.