When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.