Greater diversity drives better business results.

I'm really putting my life towards helping women to invest, and there's a circular reference here because if women can invest and give themselves the opportunity to earn higher returns, they can start those businesses. They can go to work with a little more confidence to ask for that promotion, to ask for the new assignment, etc.

When I started on Wall Street, there was pretty good diversity in those junior ranks. And you know what? It hasn't made it to the top.

We don't recognize the power of compounding.

Technology is going to play an increasingly, increasingly, increasingly important role in every industry. And it's good.

Women tend to live longer than men do. Women tend to have, unfortunately, their salaries peaked sooner than men's do. Both of these things are extraordinarily important in putting together financial and investing plans for women.

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.