88 Quotes by Sallie Krawcheck

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

the pipeline continues on record levels for the corporate and investment bank.

Downgrades like that one take particular courage, not just because it upsets company management -- which we are always okay with doing -- but because it's telling clients things they don't necessarily want to hear.

Anybody who tells you that a flat yield curve is fine or that rising interest rates are good for the banking industry isn't in the same banking industry. Clearly these things are not helpful, but there are ways to manage through it.

For banks to be global, they need to -- in their estimation -- have a strong securities presence. For companies to have a strong securities presence internationally and globally they have to have a strong presence in the U.S.

I'm really putting my life towards helping women to invest, and there's a circular reference here because if women can invest and give themselves the opportunity to earn higher returns, they can start those businesses. They can go to work with a little more confidence to ask for that promotion, to ask for the new assignment, etc.

Men tend to leave their financial adviser at a single-digit-percent rate in any given year. And women leave their husband and their joint financial adviser in the year after their spouse's death at a rate of greater than 70 percent - seven-zero.

Facts are that the financial advisers on Wall Street today or anywhere depending on which firm, what point in time - 85 to 88 percent male, and that is part of why investing for women they tell us feels unapproachable because they don't see people who look like them.