Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Halla Tomasdottir
Icelandic Executive Chairman and Co-founder Audur Capital to bring greater diversity, social responsibility, and “feminine values” to the financial services industry, Managing Director of Iceland's Chamber of Commerce
"Doing emotional due diligence is just as important as doing financial due diligence. It is actually people that make money and lose money, not Excel spreadsheets. "
"Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next."
"It actually got so bad that somebody put [Iceland] up for sale on eBay. Ninety-nine pence was the starting price, and no reserve. "
"I’m fed up with this tyranny of either/or choices in life — ‘either it’s men, or it’s women.’ We need to start embracing the beauty of balance. "
"I’m not here to say that men are to blame for the [financial] crisis and what happened in my country [Iceland]. But I can tell you that in my country, much like on Wall Street and the city of London and elsewhere, men were at the helm of the game of the financial sector. That kind of lack of diversity and sameness leads to disastrous problems. "