Qualcomm has seen firsthand the transformative power of mobile technology as part of many projects created through its Wireless Reach initiative - programs around the world that help educators, health care workers, and entrepreneurs take advantage of mobile technology.

Peggy Johnson

Work Technology Power

You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

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You T Someone

I just feel like you should be able to have a respectful work environment, because if you do, you'll be your best self.

Peggy Johnson

Work Respect Men

Wireless is the largest information, communication, and technology platform in history, and mobile broadband is transforming how we can deliver educational materials and experiences to all students. The technology now exists to support learning on a massive scale and advance the 21st century skills needed to compete in the global economy.

Peggy Johnson

Technology Pet Learning

Wireless technology is creating entrepreneurship on a small scale that allows a single woman to set up a business in a small village or a single farmer or fisherman to access and disseminate market information in order to get the best price for their products.

Peggy Johnson

Technology Business Age

Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice.

Peggy Johnson

Car Voice Us

In Indonesia, Qualcomm, in a joint project with Grameen Foundation, has provided a range of mobile phone-based services to individuals. This project facilitates the creation of businesses for those living at the bottom of the economic pyramid and, at the same time, extends telecommunication access to people who cannot afford a mobile phone.

Peggy Johnson

Time Communication Business

The opportunity to build new and surprising partnerships to help Microsoft succeed in a mobile-first, cloud-first world is truly exciting, and I look forward to leading these efforts.

Peggy Johnson

War Art World

We have such a huge demand for engineers in this country, both male and female. We need to find a way to do a better sales job on these young girls so we can get them interested in a field that is very rewarding.

Peggy Johnson

War Young Girls Young

Microsoft is a much bigger company than Qualcomm - a much bigger company - and there were a few days where I thought, 'I don't know if I can do this. It's huge.' My job was to come into the company and grow new businesses, and I thought, 'I'm not sure,' but it's all worked out pretty well.

Peggy Johnson

Work Business Worked

Do one thing well, and then build from there.

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Well Thing Thin

Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.

Peggy Johnson

Good Family Yin

It's not just about checking the box on corporate social responsibility. It's about hitting our bottom line.

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Us Tom Tin

I would try to be super-assertive in meetings and, you know, pound my hand off the table, and it never ended well. People would say, 'What are you beating the table for?' It's not natural for me.

Peggy Johnson

You Would Well

We all have to think about the emerging markets.

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Think Thin T

I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

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Family Us Up

Our smartphones can offer innovative opportunities for improving how we react to our environment, and I believe it is increasingly becoming an asset - not a hindrance - to maintaining a healthier relationship with our work, our friends, and the world around us.

Peggy Johnson

Work Relationship Men

Cyanogen has done an interesting job with their version of Android - the Cyanogenmod. And they're on 50-million-plus devices. And that's just another ecosystem that we wanted to tap into and to bring our Office apps to.

Peggy Johnson

Ya Wit Wanted

I'm an electrical engineer, and when I first started out, there was nobody who looked like me out there. I worked at Qualcomm, and I remember coming into meeting rooms, and I could never get the floor. I could never get my opinion across.

Peggy Johnson

Work Art Worked

We are constantly scanning for opportunities.

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Unit UN Tie

Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.

Peggy Johnson

Technology Men Business

The 14th of 15 kids, I was the second youngest - not a coveted spot on the family totem pole.

Peggy Johnson

If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not necessarily an algorithm.

Peggy Johnson

It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.

Peggy Johnson

As a college freshman with an on-campus job, I was delivering paperwork to the engineering department one day. There, I encountered two department assistants whose faces lit up with the hope that I was a prospective student. I hadn't come there to enroll, but their reactions piqued my interest.

Peggy Johnson

Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.

Peggy Johnson

If some day you're struggling with math, and you think, 'I don't think I can do this,' you can - you actually can. Everybody has their hard days - I definitely had mine - and you get through them, and you learn from that stumble, and then you're onto the next problem.

Peggy Johnson

We look for partners who are solving a problem for us. If they've already solved it, we'd much rather try to partner with them than try to rebuild it.

Peggy Johnson

When a culture is broken, the cracks show - morale is weakened, but so is profit and performance. That's why culture has to be at the core of any business transformation.

Peggy Johnson

Over the course of my career as an engineer-turned-tech evangelist, I've had the privilege of travelling the world and seeing the extraordinary impact of mobile on people and communities across a broad range of cultures and socio-economic strata. In many ways, mobile is a democratizing force. It empowers us. It inspires us. It extends our reach.

Peggy Johnson

When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.

Peggy Johnson

We fully recognized that our customers have a variety of devices. They're carrying all sorts of things. And we want to bring our world-class apps to those devices.

Peggy Johnson

Deals are always a bit lumpy. We look at, 'Is it solving a problem for us?' And if it does, we move to acquisition.

Peggy Johnson

To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.

Peggy Johnson

I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.

Peggy Johnson

I attended a high school with more than 4,000 students and met with a guidance counselor only once during my four-year stint. Despite my clear strengths in science and math, my counselor's advice was to pursue a degree in business. A career in engineering was never encouraged nor, in fact, ever mentioned.

Peggy Johnson

We try not to look at everything through a competitive lens.

Peggy Johnson

Qualcomm has seen firsthand the transformative power of mobile technology as part of many projects created through its Wireless Reach initiative - programs around the world that help educators, health care workers, and entrepreneurs take advantage of mobile technology.

Peggy Johnson

I can still hear my mom's voice echoing through the house, reminding me and my siblings to 'Make your beds!' It seems like such a small thing, but when you're one of 15 brothers and sisters like me, those small reminders about the importance of discipline and order are critical.

Peggy Johnson

I think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere along the way, they veer off of that.

Peggy Johnson

We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.

Peggy Johnson

It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.

Peggy Johnson

I had to find my own terms for success, and it wasn't anything like what I was told to do.

Peggy Johnson

Great things happen when you converge services and devices.

Peggy Johnson

'Rather than fighting over a piece of the pie, can we grow the pie?' is really our model.

Peggy Johnson

I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.

Peggy Johnson

Acompli is just a great example of a fabulous app.

Peggy Johnson

I worked on anti-submarine warfare for surface ships.

Peggy Johnson

My parents had two rules: You had to go to college, and you had to pay for it yourself. So we all did.

Peggy Johnson

At many companies, business development is treated as a sales tool for incremental growth, but I believe that business development can bend our growth curve in a big way. It should accelerate our ability to grow, helping us quickly close gaps or leap ahead of competitors.

Peggy Johnson

I think our Acompli acquisition was an interesting one, which started with a partnership and looking at their mobile e-mail app on iOS and Android. And what I would like to highlight with that one is the speed that we actually turned that around and brought it out the door.

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