” Stop hoping for a promotion that’s not coming. Instead, start a business at which you want to work. “
” The whole icon of a bull that stands for Wall Street – you couldn’t come up with an image of a more male environment. Women feel that the brand doesn’t speak to them. “
” If you are a senior woman in business, you intuitively know two things: If a white man promotes a woman or a person of color, he gets credit for it. If a woman says great things about a woman, you get dinged for it. Research is clear on this. “
” If you are going to fire this person or hire that person, do it all in a concentrated period. The Band-Aid gets ripped off, and everybody goes back to work. “
” First, pay off your high-interest-rate debt. If you have student loan debt – that’s low interest rate, that has a tax benefit – you can leave that out. A mortgage can be an OK one. Credit card debt is poison. That needs to be paid off right away. “
” Whatever your income level is, save as much as you can – up to 20 percent, but more if you can – and invest it. Put that into an IRA, put that into a brokerage account. “
” Albert Einstein is reported to have said compounding is the eighth wonder of the world. Obviously, a dollar invested in your 20s is worth so much more than a dollar invested in your 60s. “
” The only time in my career I’ve lost sleep – wake up 3:30 in the morning, and you know you’re not going back to sleep – is when I’ve been an entrepreneur. Even in the financial crisis. “
” Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know. “
” What you hear and what the research shows is that gentlemen negotiate for their first job. Women do not negotiate from their first job and on. And I tell women there is no H.R. fairy godmother. There might be, but you better not count on it. “
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