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Nothing bad happens when women are in positions of power.
Sallie Krawcheck
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Sallie Krawcheck
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 28
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When I started on Wall Street, there was pretty good diversity in those junior ranks. And you know what? It hasn't made it to the top.
Sallie Krawcheck
Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.
Sallie Krawcheck
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,'
Sallie Krawcheck
Fundraisers treat men completely differently than women. As a matter of fact, many of them have the default on their direct mail set up to read Mister, and it really rankles a lot of women.
Sallie Krawcheck
I can tell you that my experience has been that the gentlemen are more likely to come and ask for the order, ask for the raise, ask for the promotion, and that the women are less likely to do so.
Sallie Krawcheck
If a woman is making $85,000 a year, putting aside 20% of her income, putting it in a bank, earning very little...Over the course of her life vs. investing, this can cost her $1.5 million, $2 million, $2.5 million. Life changing amounts.
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I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.
Sallie Krawcheck
We don't recognize the power of compounding.
Sallie Krawcheck
In our corporate culture, because someone may have to take some flexibility because of family issues, somehow we continue to believe they aren't fully dedicated.
Sallie Krawcheck
I had very good bosses, very good companies for which I worked. I worked in industries where the results really mattered it wasn't the perception of results, it was just the facts.
Sallie Krawcheck
You have six math Ph.D. Caucasian gentlemen from the Northeast of the country, great. You put one more in the mix, you haven't added much. It's only when you add something different that you really are able to accomplish more.
Sallie Krawcheck
Companies that put a mandated parental leave in place save money in the first year, FIRST YEAR. Because they don't have to hire to replace the woman.
Sallie Krawcheck
If a woman waits 10 years to invest, I'm busy, I've got to do this, I can put it off, I gotta find the right financial... It costs her $100 a day. $100 a day! And if we had money falling out of her pocketbook at the rate of $100 a day, we'd change our pocketbook we'd fix our pocketbook.
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Women tend to live longer than men do. Women tend to have, unfortunately, their salaries peaked sooner than men's do. Both of these things are extraordinarily important in putting together financial and investing plans for women.
Sallie Krawcheck
I love what's going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference.
Sallie Krawcheck
I prefer the word engagement. Instead of empowerment, it's enabling women to engage in business.
Sallie Krawcheck
If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.
Sallie Krawcheck
Women tend to have a better track record in investing - when they invest - than men do, because they tend to take a longer-term perspective. They tend to trade less. They tend to shift in and out of stocks or mutual funds less often.
Sallie Krawcheck
Greater diversity drives better business results.
Sallie Krawcheck
A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.
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