Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

I just think of myself as a hard-working person who loves my job.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

I was always first in, last out, but not inefficiently.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

One of the things I liked about the movie 'Minority Report' was they used a lot of futurists as consultants to really try to understand what the world really would be like in 50 years.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

I feel like I grew up in the investment business. My dad was at T. Rowe Price his whole career. We lived in Baltimore and had a small social circle, so most of my dad's friends also worked for T. Rowe.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

I would like to be known as a great leader, not as a great woman leader.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

My favorite kick is the roundhouse. I'm very capable of kicking a tall person in the head with a roundhouse.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot of other things, including ballet.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

Be the optimist in the room.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

Play well with others.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

I have been measured on my merit and on my accomplishments.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions, and things that really allow us to blend the best of technology and the human brain.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

I really believe that I've been a better parent from being a working mother.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

In 1998, Nasdaq started a project called Next Nasdaq - or what Nasdaq was going to become - and they decided to handpick some of the up-and-comers. I was chosen as one of the people. It was a great opportunity for me and, I guess, a reflection of the fact that I was seen as someone who was developing her career pretty well.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

Every time you feel entitled, you're making a mistake.