Quotes from Diana Taylor

As long as you know you have enough to live on, take some risks.

I love going to parks.

If you are a junior member of a minority party - one of 100 people - in the U.S. Senate, what really can you do? Well, you're just going to get frustrated.

On the board of a financial institution, especially one that took TARP money, it has changed radically because the regulators have been vocal about what they want boards to do and how involved they want boards to be in the management of a company.

It's always disconcerting when somebody comes over to you on the bus and says, 'I know who you are.'

If I were to run for Senate, my calculation is, what kind of an impact am I going to have were I to win?

The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out what he wanted and then get Congress to go along with it.

I have never really planned anything in my life.

For some reason, the executive world is not conducive to women as much as to men. There are reasons for that. Women multitask; men by-and-large are much better at doing one thing at a time.

I define myself by my family: my parents or my brother or sister and their families.

Always make sure that you can support yourself and that you always have a cushion. And never, ever, depend on anyone else for money.

There are not very many people who go out and vote in primaries. So to get elected in a particular district, you have to appeal to the five people who vote in the primary.

I don't know how good a principal I would be. I kind of like being the second.

I was was never really exposed to anybody who wasn't just like me until, basically, I went to college.

I have basically fallen into everything I've ever done.

I hate 'girlfriend' because it sounds so temporary. It's very junior high.

We have come a very, very long way and Michael Bloomberg has been at the forefront of that change.

I define myself first and foremost as I've had a fairly successful career.

You should never quit your day job.

I love Joe Biden, but he's not going to defeat Donald Trump. He's not. He doesn't have the energy and, quite frankly, he has a lot of baggage.

It was the first fight I had with my father. My father basically said, why are you going to business school? You're just going to get married and have kids and you won't use your degree. And it's expensive. We had a knockdown, drag-out fight, which was great. Yeah. In the driveway. My father said, 'You're on your own.'

I work for Governor Pataki. Period. End of story. I am very loyal to him.

They're hard workers, they're really smart but they're not very good about marching into their boss's offices and saying 'I need a raise!... Women tend to have the attitude that, 'if I put my head down, I work really hard, I'll get recognized.'

A couple of words that somebody said to somebody many years ago is not who they are today. You regret it, you apologize, you make it right, you move on and you live your life according to the values of what you have.