“Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.”

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.

I tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

Women need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.

When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

Almost any decision is better than no decision — just keep moving.

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.

He who is not getting better is getting worse.

But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.

Sometimes we need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes, God has a better plan. God’s ways are higher than ours.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.