88 Quotes by Sallie Krawcheck

If you haven’t had a major fail in your career – face-plant level – you aren’t trying hard enough.

If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, ‘We’d like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing – we can’t afford diversity right now,’

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

Whenever you start a new business, the sheer number of variables at hand makes failure a constant possibility.

Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.

Leadership is a lot of hard work. I hoped, when I was younger, that I would just be a natural leader or that it was something that was innate, but it is really a learned skill.

People just haven't saved enough for retirement. And they're going to outlive their money.

We haven't always been aware of it, but the 'locker-room bro talk' has long been going on not just in locker rooms but in some corporate conference rooms. Of course, not by all men. But by some - including some who hold positions of power. And that matters in holding women back.