Diana Taylor

“Opportunities arrive and you think, 'Wow, that seems like a really good idea.' You take risks. If they don't work out, you move on.”

“There are ways to abuse the microfinance system, just like there are ways to abuse the mortgage system. The solution is not to ban mortgages.”

“It takes time to change a culture.”

“One thing that you find out later in life is that you have a lot more power than you think you do.”

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

“You need to look at people's values and what they have done.”

“I've always been the staff person.”

“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.”

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

“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.”