She is a former senior fellow with the Ford Foundation and advisor to the world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work and new book, being human. She will be in conversation with our very good friend Pamela Edwards and abc news anchor of the morning addition. Duty and pam, the screen is yours. Andy, this new age of social distancing is great to see we can get it done. Duty, it was an honor to read your book. It is a running theme in the book, how often people tell you they should know they had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made. In fact, thats where i want to start, to give people a perspective and i wanted you to compare and contrast what it was like when you are a young person pick you up in the book talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What it was like to be a person coming into the world then with a disability a
I really enjoyed it. It is a gripping story and well told. So my first question why did you decide to write this now . Was there something more you wanted to say, what motivated you . It was written to the young entrepreneurs know how hard it can be and how hard rewording it can be so that it offers an encouragement to think if i want to start my own business, i should do it. The other thing i wanted to do that before i got too old to remember because looking at this from when it dictated at the Stock Exchange and then going through all the technology was really an Inflection Point in the Financial Service industry and i wanted to tell the story from the inside so people would see the human aspect to it. Host so, the title the harder the work the luckier you get, is that tongueincheek or did you believe that . Guest sam is the one that put the phrase together but then as i was talking to the people at simon schuster, and of course it isnt about time and time again. It sounded like it s
My name is theresa zoro and im the executive director of marketing for the random house group and i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight for this virtual commencement. We want to congratulate the class of 2020 and everyone joining us tonight whos looking for inspiration right now. We have the will wonderful lineup of speakers who were honored to share their words of encouragement. We would love to hear your thoughts to what you are reading and we ask that everyone please stay respectful in the chaptered random house will be providing to Penguin Random house. Com on all the books featured tonight. Im so thrilled to introduce our first speaker martha stewart. Martha stewart is americas most prescient lifestyle expert entrepreneur and my winning host and the founder of the first multichannel Lifestyle Companies martha is the author of more than 90 books on cooking entertaining and Home Decorating gardens weddings and decorating. We are so thrilled that marthas joining us tonig
Publications including the american scholar, the american short fiction, the atlantic monthly, new republic, the smithsonian, the Washington Post magazine, and the wilson quarterly. And opinions and book review pages of the boston globe. The New York Times, u. S. Today in the Washington Post. He lives in virginia. Please give a warm welcome to robert wilson. [applause]. [background sounds]. Thank you ce that introduction. I am hoping your app works a lot better than the app for the iowa caucuses. [laughter]. I trust it will. You can probably actually test it. Thanks to all of you for coming this morning on this cold morning. It is very pleasant to see so many of you here. Very pleasant to see cspan here. I dont think cspan for all of the done to support book culture in america. I am attempt to say that normally what remains of the culture in america but on a day like today, its very easy to be optimistic about the state of books. I love being in savannah. My wife martha and i come here
You . First of all thank you for this interview. But now it was written to appeal to entrepreneurs to let them know how hard it can be and how rewarding it can be. It offers encouragement if i want to start my own business i can do it. The other thing i wanted to do it before i got to walden didnt remember everything because looking at the sec that dictated the New York Stock Exchange they got rid of fixed commissions and going through all the technology was the Inflection Point in our Financial Service industry. I wanted to tell the story from the other side so people could see a human aspect. Host so the title of the harder you work the luckier you get, is that tongueincheek or do you believe that . I really did believe it because it has happened to me so many times the first one sam gould put that together but as i was talking to the people at Simon Schuster and of course its in the book time and time again the harder you work the luckier you get , it sounded like it should be a goo