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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
Businessperson
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Charleston
South Carolina
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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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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,'
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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.
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Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.
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We don't recognize the power of compounding.
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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.
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I want to buy a house. I want to retire well. I want to have baby.
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Women tell us that they do feel patronized. They do feel like they don't have the time and the space to have their questions answered.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.
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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.
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How about mandated parental leave.? Oh, okay. Less than 20% of companies in America have it. Most of them think about it as an expense. What's the bigger expense? The bigger expense occurs if women have babies and don't come back to work.
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As we work together and pool our resources, there's room for everyone to be successful.
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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.
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A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.
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If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.
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Greater diversity drives better business results.
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