“Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.”

If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.

I want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.

So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.

It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.

We need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.

The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.

Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .

The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.