Sallie Krawcheck Quotes

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

Nothing bad happens when women are in positions of power.

I love what's going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.

As we work together and pool our resources, there's room for everyone to be successful.

I prefer the word "engagement." Instead of empowerment, it's enabling women to engage in business.

Technology is going to play an increasingly, increasingly, increasingly important role in every industry. And it's good.

Greater diversity drives better business results.

Your adrenaline starts to go when the market opens in the morning. It's like sports programming.

If a woman was successful, she wasn't helping other women.

Women have different characteristics and needs than men do.

Women tend to collaborate, in my experience, more easily than gentlemen do.

I think that indicates why men tend to invest more wealth. If he loses some, there's more coming in. Whereas for women, it's like "Ugh, I gotta keep this."

Women tend to very much, very much think of money as a means to an end, not as an end in itself.

Women tell us that they do feel patronized. They do feel like they don't have the time and the space to have their questions answered.

I had very good bosses, very good companies for which I worked. I worked in industries where the results really mattered; it wasn't the perception of results, it was just the facts.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.

I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.

Typically, when you ask a financial adviser sitting with a couple: Do you treat the man and woman differently? They say, "No!"

When I started on Wall Street, there was pretty good diversity in those junior ranks. And you know what? It hasn't made it to the top.

In our corporate culture, because someone may have to take some flexibility because of family issues, somehow we continue to believe they aren't fully dedicated.

Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.

Companies that put a mandated parental leave in place save money in the first year, FIRST YEAR. Because they don't have to hire to replace the woman.

I can tell you that my experience has been that the gentlemen are more likely to come and ask for the order, ask for the raise, ask for the promotion, and that the women are less likely to do so.

Fundraisers treat men completely differently than women. As a matter of fact, many of them have the default on their direct mail set up to read "Mister," and it really rankles a lot of women.

We don't recognize the power of compounding.

I want to buy a house. I want to retire well. I want to have baby.

What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'