“A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.”

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately…it’s everything.

I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.

Don’t teach talent that isn’t there.

Especially if you’re over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ the ‘New York Times,’ constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

When you’re a big money earner and your husband isn’t, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or ‘Mrs. Higgins.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

I’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you’ll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure – like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.

Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It’s healthy.

Lynching is color line murder.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.

Virtue knows no color line.

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…