Top 70 Caroline Ghosn Quotes

Our members are constantly telling us that the guidance they received from Levo’s mentors has helped them negotiate a raise, ask for more responsibility, build their resume, and more.

A mentor is someone who is willing to give you advice that isn’t in the best interest for them. It takes a real mentor to put you first.

Having women who are already successful take the leap of faith to help younger women is critical.

A smile and good energy. They will take you farther than any material possession.

Power is ultimately about the energy you emanate from within.

After graduation, I discovered that I’d hit the limit of what I could learn from the women in my family. On top of that, in the workforce, all of the things that mattered in college suddenly weren’t enough.

The interview is not over when the meeting is over. Never forget that.

There’s this pressure to perform in your twenties – I think it comes from this whole generational foreshadowing that presumes there will be a whole other layer of things to worry about in your thirties.

I used to think I was a night owl. I realized I’m not, because I have energy at night, but I’m not as focused and productive when I try to get things done.

I would encourage women to think about leaders in different fields or companies who they can draw parallels with. For example, I am constantly studying the lives and lessons of leaders in fields outside of technology, from the arts to politics. There is always something to learn.

As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.

Being an entrepreneur is not a 9-to-5 job.

You can’t value others until you value yourself.

Productivity doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be easily boosted through a manageable combination of the right tools, resources, and habits to make the most of your time.

Taking care of myself used to be at the bottom of my list, but I’m all about wellness.

An interview is about mutual selection.

Whenever you have to figure out things that aren’t explicit, like in salary negotiations, you see differences in how women and people of color succeed.

The issue of women in the workplace is not a women’s issue: it’s an economic problem.

I have always been fascinated by entrepreneurship.

The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.

Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster.

We work more than we do anything else in our lives, but the average person only interacts with four to five colleagues. Outside of that, they don’t build that many relationships.

Believe in yourself. You are enough.

The busier you get, and the more forward-looking you become, the more difficult it is to actually acknowledge and gain strength and inspiration from the things you’ve already accomplished, which can become problematic when you’re in a startup.

We are very committed to highlighting women succeeding in entrepreneurship or technology.

Learning to ask is like flexing a muscle. The more you do it, the easier it becomes. I started by learning how to ask for the small things in my life, and eventually I could make the Big Daunting Asks.

What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion – how they choose to package that is their prerogative.

White is hands down my favorite color and the color I wear the most.

The big experience of feeling like I jumped off into the deep end was that transition from college into the workforce. There were so many unwritten rules I didn’t understand.

I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, ‘Where do I want to be?’ but ‘What do I want to learn from this?’ Use that opportunity to be a sponge.

As CEO of Levo, a millennial-focused career platform, I’m fascinated by how others turn their passion into success.

A skill is something that you aren’t inherently talented at and that isn’t an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.

Speaking personally, as a first-time female founder, I would not be where I am today without an incredible network of fellow founders who have shared their challenges, advice, and hacks with me.

Men are much more likely to make sure the boss knows they were in the office until midnight. But women tend to avoid seeking that kind of acknowledgement for their work. They just assume that the boss knows – but the boss usually doesn’t. I experienced that firsthand.

I wish I had known the value of interning at a startup before starting my own. There is so much I could have learned on somebody else’s dime in a much lower-risk environment.

Trust your instinct. And if you can’t tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.

Look at an interview as an organic part of building a relationship.

Your style can be an artistic part of your personal leadership journey.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, ‘What wisdom did I learn from that?’

You thrive in your career when you thrive with yourself.

There’s this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.

Trust me: Every entrepreneur has felt like an utter loser at some point.

Ultimately, nobody can decide for you that it’s the right moment to quit your job, just like nobody can decide for you that it’s the right moment to fall in or out of love.

When faced with an obstacle or uncertainty in your abilities, use it as an opportunity to grow your talents.

You’re a smart person. You’re going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that’s going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.

If you’re not certain about something, it might mean you should reach out to a person you trust for advice.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.

I’ve started to really nurture a bedtime routine, which, for me, starts with caffeine-free tea, usually rooibos or jasmine tea, something soothing, very fragrant, just a reminder to get back to your senses.

In high school, I interned at my mother’s restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to switch contexts quickly, as I contributed to everything from managing the reception desk to building their website.

I used to be an awful asker. I was the 14-year-old who didn’t correct the family I would babysit for when they gave me less money than we had agreed to, because it felt rude and scary.

I begin to cut myself off in a digital shutdown at about 10 P.M. Phone, laptop, and iPad go down. If I’m at home, I’ll leave my laptop and iPad in the living room. Those things don’t go into my bedroom at all.

I first began to realize that it was time to leave my job when the sight of my manager’s telephone number on my screen made my heart contract and burn.

If what you’re doing today is moving you closer to your passion, then that’s wonderful.

We cannot solve the STEM gender gap without solving it for millennials. They’re our first digital natives, and they’re willing to learn quickly.

As an entrepreneur, the latitude of failure and of success is directly correlated to people. I am growing more and more attentive to my first instincts, even if I can’t justify them, as they apply to people.

I have a million career weaknesses, and although it’s uncomfortable, I believe that authentically acknowledging and working through your vulnerability is more powerful than the delusion of perfection.

The most important thing that I did was to actually take the time to sit down every month and do a review of what I spent and look at it objectively.

The fact that millennials are fast at communication and expect transparency and don’t feel comfortable with hierarchy gets interpreted as us being impatient or entitled. These traits are perfectly normal given that we’re the first digital natives.

The power of storytelling – of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd – remains absolute.

You need to be really great at your job. You need a strong network of peers, and you need a strong network of mentors.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.