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

Your adrenaline starts to go when the market opens in the morning. It's like sports programming.

If a woman was successful, she wasn't helping other women.

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

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.

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

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.