Miriam Altman

"Ive learned over the years that leadership is everything."

"Was a teacher in a NYC high school and noticed absenteeism was a huge problem from the first day I stood in front of my students. I realized that parents, an essential partner to help get kids to class, were often uninformed, parents play major role in education besides we teachers."

"Chinese urban planning is legendary, and great thought has been devoted to public spaces."

"Learning some Mandarin can really change the overall experience."

"A visit to Shanghai begs an exploration of art, fashion, design, and technology."

"When a lot of other kids during breaks from school were playing or doing other fun activities, I was going to work with my dad, which maybe didn’t seem that fun at the time but I actually thought it was a pretty cool experience. Early entrepreneurship shapens mind"

"China has moved beyond the stage of imitation and has a growing community of designers and innovators."

"Eskom could not build up sufficient reserves to cover the costs of maintenance, replacement or new capacity."

"Im a very driven personality, theres no doubt about that. For success in bringing about this kind of change, you have to be pretty ruthlessly focused. I deal with intense stuff at Telkom and its an enormous challenge and theres pain and pleasure. Its very exciting, but what if you fail? You cant fail."

"when they do understand, I’ve experienced more random acts of kindness in China than anywhere else."

"Staff were quite probably going to say one thing, do another, and wait for Maseko to pass through."

"Its true that past efforts have failed. Theres been a lot of energy and a lot of great ideas, but its been inconsistent."