--- title: Women in the World: Hillary Clinton On How Women Succeed description: Clinton says young women are selling themselves short canonical: https://time.com/49751/hillary-clintons-best-advice-for-succeeding-in-a-mans-world/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-04T15:07:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:06.239Z og:title: Hillary Clinton Six Best Pieces of Advice for Succeeding in a Man's World og:description: Clinton says young women are selling themselves short og:url: https://time.com/49751/hillary-clintons-best-advice-for-succeeding-in-a-mans-world/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte506a257eb7c6e33/698688f2cd6848ae3b093f4a/482460361-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 5th Annual Women In The World Summit - Day 1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Six Best Pieces of Advice for Succeeding in a Man's World twitter:description: Clinton says young women are selling themselves short twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte506a257eb7c6e33/698688f2cd6848ae3b093f4a/482460361-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton's Best Advice on Succeeding in a Man's World by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Apr 4, 2014 3:07 PM UTC  <> at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center on April 3, 2014 in New York City. <> at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center on April 3, 2014 in New York City.Marc Bryan-Brown—WireImage by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Apr 4, 2014 3:07 PM UTC The former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has been breaking into the men’s club all her career. She shared some of her hard-won wisdom about how that’s done last night at the opening of the [Women in the World Conference](http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw.html) in New York. Clinton sat down with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Christine Lagarde in a joint interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Both women had the crowd laughing and applauding at their no-nonsense takes on everything from intimidating men, to Russia, to the world economy. Here are some of the best quotes from Clinton. **On the double standard for women:** --- > “” --- **On what we should do about the double standard:** --- > “” --- **On advice for young women on how to handle workplace sexism:** --- > “” --- **On the qualities women need to succeed:** --- > “” --- **What young women are doing wrong:** --- > “” --- **On the state of women’s rights worldwide:** --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/49751/hillary-clintons-best-advice-for-succeeding-in-a-mans-world/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/49751/hillary-clintons-best-advice-for-succeeding-in-a-mans-world/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton's Best Advice on Succeeding in a Man's World","datePublished":"2014-04-04T15:07:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:06.239Z","description":"Clinton says young women are selling themselves short","url":"https://time.com/49751/hillary-clintons-best-advice-for-succeeding-in-a-mans-world/","keywords":["Living","feminism","sexism","hillary clinton"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte506a257eb7c6e33/698688f2cd6848ae3b093f4a/482460361-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte506a257eb7c6e33/698688f2cd6848ae3b093f4a/482460361-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"5th Annual Women In The World Summit - Day 1","caption":"5th Annual Women In The World Summit - Day 1","creditText":"Marc Bryan-Brown—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/49751/hillary-clintons-best-advice-for-succeeding-in-a-mans-world/","name":"Hillary Clinton's Best Advice on Succeeding in a Man's World"}}]}] ```