What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing that since I had kids. I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it's not until the last year, two years, that I'm brave enough to talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn't lie, but I wasn't running around giving speeches on it." "...there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.