"Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you."

"From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money."

"I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men."

"Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship."

"Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him."

"The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business."

"I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings."

"It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination."