Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Muriel Siebert

When a door is hard to open, and if nothing else works, sometimes you just have to rear back and kick it open.

I put my head down and charge.

Do not be afraid to go into uncharted territories. You might find some pretty good things there.

If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can't in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy.

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw in the towel on bad accounting.

If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.

Take stands, take risks, take responsibility.

Do your homework all of your life.

But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers — and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting.