November 07, 2023

How To Dream Big and Win with Liz Elting

23 minutes

Liz Elting, Founder and CEO of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, is an entrepreneur, business leader, linguaphile, philanthropist, feminist, and mother. After living, studying, and working in five countries across the globe, Liz founded TransPerfect out of an NYU dorm room in 1992 and served as Co-CEO until 2018. TransPerfect is the world's largest language solutions company, with over $1.1 billion in revenue and offices in more than 100 cities worldwide. Liz received the 2019 Charles Waldo Haskins Award for business and public service from NYU’s Stern School of Business, the American Heart Association’s 2020 Health Equity Leadership Award, the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs’ 2021 Vertex Award for changing the face and direction of women’s high-growth entrepreneurship, the American Heart Association’s 2022 Woman Changing the World Award, and Trinity College’s 2022 Kathleen O’Connor Boelhouwer ’85 Alumni Initiative Award. Liz has been recognized as a NOW Woman of Power & Influence, American Express' and Entrepreneur magazine's Woman of the Year, and one of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women every year since the list’s inception. Elting is the author of Dream Big and Win: Translating Passion into Purpose and Creating a Billion-Dollar Business.

Memorable Quotes:

1. "I'm a huge believer in do what's already being done, just do it differently, and better it." - Liz emphasizes that you don't need a completely new idea to succeed, just improving on existing concepts.

2. "Don't wait for it to be perfect because the perfect time will never come. There's always something that gets in the way. But just go for it and go All-in and give it everything you have. And that's that's how, you know the fun begins. And that's how you will accomplish your dreams." - Liz advises taking action even if everything isn't perfect yet.

3. "We should never let a lack of confidence stop us because we all essentially we all have our great qualities. Why should wait, we're all wonderful. We're all lovable. We're all talented and worthwhile and amazing. So why would we let anything ever stop us?" - Liz's view that we all have strengths and qualities to believe in ourselves.

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