Mary Callahan Erdoes quotes:

If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person.

My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.

The U.S. has to realize it's got so much going for it. Let's just get ourselves to come together as a team - one team running the country, helping that country to get itself back on stable footing, which then cascades to the rest of the world.

You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.