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.

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.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.

It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.

Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.