Yep, Warren Buffett Still Rocks!

 “Fellow males, get onboard. The closer that America comes to fully employing the talents of all its citizens, the greater its output of goods and services will be. We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.” Warren Buffett

This is from an essay from Warren Buffett after The Women’s Conference recently held.  This is the last part of his essay but I believe the most powerful part of the message.  Teaching everyone that by helping women fulfill their own potential helps everyone achieve their goals.  So many times, women have been taught to value themselves less than their male colleagues.  They also get paid well below their male colleagues for the same work. 

As a business owner your goal when hiring should be to hire the person that best fits your job opening.  Hiring biases do nothing for the company but deprive them of the right kind of talent.  Looking at the person as a whole, based on their degree (if required), their experience and the knowledge and specific skill set they bring to the table.   Each business owner can help their business grow by hiring the most talented and competent person for the job no matter the gender. 

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Suzanne Cormier

Executive Director

BizWorks (Small Business Incubator)

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 “But at every turn my sisters would be told -- more through signals than words -- that success for them would be "marrying well." I was meanwhile hearing that the world's opportunities were there for me to seize.”  Warren Buffett from his Fortune magazine essay. 

For many years, women were taught to ensure their future they should marry well.  If they did get to college it was to hook a husband.  So much has changed but yet so much has remained the same.    Recently my mother told me that a distant female cousin of mine was graduating from high school AND getting married.   Both my mother and I were amazed and confused.  We talked about what potential she had and for the life of me; I could not understand the concept of getting married at that age. 

But then again, my mother always taught me (a child of the 80s) that I did not have to marry.  I was lucky enough to go to college and then graduate school.  Marriage was an option, a choice, but so was my career path.  I was never told by my mother that I needed to get married.  When I passed by 30^th birthday then my 35^th she never told me I was less than I should be because I wasn’t married.  But I was fulfilling my career path.

We all need strong role models in order to help us fulfill the potential within us.  I believe looking to men and women who teach young women that they can do anything they want is the best gift we can give the next generation. 

Making sure that women are empowered by everyone is a concept that will one day become a reality.   

Suzanne Cormier

Executive Director

BizWorks (Small Business Incubator)

Follow Suzanne Cormier on Facebook and

Twitter @BizWorksCenter