"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled."

"If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money."

"Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future."

"I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true."

"No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community."

"But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did."

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."

"I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words."