14 Alumni Quotes from 2024

When you leave MIT Sloan, you want to change the world.

Literacy is the path to inspire and be inspired, to open minds and hearts, uniting us to imagine and build a better future together.

Technology is what I view as the most leveraged way to be able to impact the world positively.

It’s the magic that happens at MIT, that pushes you to dream or think big beyond your perceived limitations.

Having just had my 35-year MIT Sloan Reunion, I will say that attending MIT Sloan and building the long-term relationships that came out of my time there has definitely changed the trajectory of my life.

Building relationships and doing good for the community all comes back to you in spades, while fostering your own continued growth and development.

Real estate is data centers, it’s cell phone towers, it’s fiber networks, it’s wind farms. It’s going to become solar farms. It’s no longer single-family homes and McDonald’s anymore. It’s a whole new game.

If you want to be better at anything, if you want to be able to run faster or jump higher, you need to stop making excuses and put in the work. It’s really up to you.

One of the biggest challenges we experience is thinking that once we get our diploma, everything will be perfect, but in reality, that’s only the beginning.

You don’t really understand, when you enter a job or a situation ... that what might be viewed as a small change can actually be very symbolic. It changes the culture.

It is incredibly important that we consider those who have been pushed out.

Leading others requires knowing yourself first. You need to be deeply familiar and comfortable with your strengths, limitations, personality, and communication style. Many leaders fail because they try to be something they are not, and the rest of the world can see this inauthenticity from a mile away.

Every time you go and buy something on Amazon, every time you go and walk into Whole Foods or Kroger or CVS or Wawa, you are voting with your dollar.

In addition to the innovation and the founding and the cool new startups and technologies, we need to think about systems change [and] policy changes that fundamentally change the rules of the game and unlock these models to work.