Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.