You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

We Need a RESET IN THE WAY THE ECONOMY GROWS Around the World

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I think it's the case with many women leaders. We tend to over do it.

The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.

We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.