Julie Sweet Quotes
17 quotes from Julie Sweet — Chair and CEO of Accenture, one of the world's largest professional services companies ($64B+ revenue, 750,000+ employe….
“If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough.”
“Every leader needs to think of themselves as a reinventor.”
“I have an amazing job. I work with great people doing super-exciting work.”
“There will be plenty of times where being a woman is probably not helping your career, so when it does help your career, take the opportunity and then stand out.”
“I look at it every day when I think about where I need to take our company, and where I need to continue to learn as a company.”
“Learning is a lifelong journey; it's important to never stop learning.”
“Learning is a continuous journey, and I believe that it's essential for personal and professional growth.”
“We need to be willing to reinvent ourselves top to bottom.”
“I'm learning every day. I love my job.”
“As a young professional, you set a learning agenda. That's what I did. Because if you set a learning agenda, you will actually achieve it and you'll wake up.”
“Julie is one of the top leaders in the corporate world, period. I mean, there aren't many other people who can come close.”
“AI is only a technology. The value comes from reinvention of how we work, our workforces, and the tools we use. We are making sure that we are leading the way with our own reinvention.”
“You're never going to be the daughter of the president of the Lions Club. That's not the family you were born into. And I believe you can do anything, but you have to be so much better than anyone else that they have to give it to you. Tonight, you weren't that much better.”
“I think one of my superpowers is asking for help. Maybe that goes back to humility and the idea of building great teams. If you focus on how you deliver value, then it becomes very natural that you have to have a team and you have to ask for help, because at the level that we operate, no one delivers value alone.”
“Reading it on a piece of paper would not have conveyed the why in the same way as hearing it—hearing the excitement in my voice, understanding the passion we have for why we're changing.”
“In order to capture the opportunity with AI, you really have to be willing to rewire your company. Many times, when clients are saying, we're not getting a lot out of AI, it's because they're trying to apply it to how they operate today.”
“As a working mom, one of the things that kind of went to the wayside the most was a focus on my health. This time around, for me, it was a little bit more of a wake-up call. I want to live a really long life, like you get really clear. And I want that to be a quality life.”
