"It turns out that the long hard slog she endured, the mistakes she made, the repeated failures, crises, and attacks were all leading somewhere. If you’d invested $1 in the Post’s IPO in 1971, it would be worth $89 by the time [[Katherine Graham|Graham]] stepped down in 1993—compared to $14 for her industry and $5 for the S& P 500. **It makes her not just one of the most successful female CEOs of her generation and the first to run a Fortune 500 company, but one of the best CEOs ever, period**." ([Location 1886](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01AWUTMB0&location=1886)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[leadership]], [[long-term-thinking]], [[progressing-slowly]] **Source** -- [[202409161103 - B - Ego is the Enemy]]