I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I don’t like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.