I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.

Power is the ability to get things done

Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.