She shares that title with Condoleezza Rice. Moore said, laughing, "You certainly don't ask to be a a part of Augusta - that's an invitation only, that's how they work, and it's an enormous honor. Well, I think it's important that you share," Moore said. Nothing dangerous or anything, but I learn so much when I travel and bring it back. I say, 'The people of outer Mongolia do this, I wonder how that would play here.
I would encourage everyone to see other ways of living and other cultures. It's a very big part of informing how I think," Moore explained. When looking back on the milestones in her life, she said she thinks of them as her path and journey she went on.
She explained why it hasn't been easy: "Coming from the south, being female form the south, playing in what I call a Yankee stadium, it's not a simple path. Moore's life evolved; she said there wasn't a stand out moment when she knew she made it. When I was 30 and I did my first big financial transaction I thought I had made it, then you realize you have a long way to go, then there's the next event.
Oh, when I realized ArtFields might actually work, that was another time," Moore said. As a little girl, Moore said she didn't dream of accomplishing "x, y and z. I think its hype and image. Lake City responds to Moore as anyone else. She said she isn't known as the local celebrity.
I come down in a hard hat, work boots and jeans. Moore wasn't lying. She put on her hard hat and walked around the most recent construction in downtown Lake City, showing it off and interacting with the workers. Even though ArtFields is a ten-day competition, it has really become such a part of the community, it's really year round.
All rights reserved. Skip to content. WMBF News. By Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin. Even sitting still, Darla Moore exudes an energy that makes it easy to imagine the Lake City, South Carolina—raised businesswoman commanding a boardroom of Wall Street bigwigs without breaking a sweat. I spent most of my time with my grandparents on their farm. Tobacco was the great cash crop and produced what prosperity there was for a long, long time. I loved it—being on a working farm. The activity of it. I would take spoons out and dig mud holes.
It was the happiest place of my life—the most comforting, peaceful place. I had a strong urge to leave from a very early age, primarily out of curiosity and innate drive. What I always knew, and had a sixth sense about, was that my life would be different. You know, at eight years old, I could never have defined what that meant, but I knew it was going to be different.
Everything I have ever done has been in steps—gradual. I think it is a mistake to try to plan too much. I tended to make decisions based on where I could achieve the most personal and professional independence. While I was never sexually harassed, I was certainly sexually discriminated against. A lot of areas in finance were off-limits to me just because I was a woman. So you struck out on your own, financing companies going through bankruptcy.
Moore was the first woman profiled on the cover of Fortune magazine and was named to the list of "Top 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Born and raised in Lake City, Moore works tirelessly on behalf of the state of South Carolina; she is the founder and chair of the Palmetto Institute, a nonprofit think tank focused on bolstering per capita income in the state, and the University of South Carolina's business school is named in her honor. She has served on the boards of:.
She is also heavily involved in the Charleston Parks Conservancy.
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