Anne Bingaman: Taking Risks and Assuming Responsibility

From her earliest days in the small town of Jerome, Arizona, Anne’s career was based on her focused determination, strengthened by her father’s faith in her. As early as her freshmen year in high school, she showed self-starter talent, announcing her aim to reach the heights of Stanford University. After a successful career heading the antitrust division of the Department of Justice, she left government to become a rare female senior executive in the telecommunications industry. After that, she was an even more unique, a successful woman entrepreneur. Her secret ingredients were assuming risks and taking responsibilities for her actions. Anne’s style is straightforward, not at all concerned about impressing others.

In her own words: “Work your tail off! Keep yourself on a short leash. Focus every hour of every day on what you ought to be doing, not want you might want to be doing. Millions of people work hard every day. Oh, my whole family, my parents, aunts and uncles, my grandmother, all of them worked hard. My mother, father, aunts, uncles, and grandmother all had their own businesses, and they all worked basically all for this. No one told us to work hard. You just watched them. You saw it. You understood.”