women entrepreneur quotes

“I believe the name of our company was incredibly important to our success. When I first created it, I didn’t think I was creating a company just the name of a video. However, the name Baby Einstein caught on very fast and became the generic name for baby videos.” – Julie Aigner Clark

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“When my company started really growing, I didn’t have any help in my house at all. I had the upkeep of my daily life, I had a one year old and a three year old, and I had my house. So I had to prioritize.” – Julie Aigner Clark

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“It was a risk. I had a husband and I was pregnant with my oldest son. But I don’t look at risk the way other people do. When you’re an entrepreneur, you have to go in feeling like you’re going to be successful.” – Lillian Vernon

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We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. ~ Malala Yousafzai (Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate)

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The best protection any woman can have is courage. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton (suffragist and leading figure of the early women’s rights movement)

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One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go. ~ Sheila Murray Bethel (entrepreneur and best selling business author)

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"Life-fulfilling work is never about the money -- when you feel true passion for something, you instinctively find ways to nurture it." -- Eileen Fisher, fashion designer.

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"Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference." -- Alison Pincus, co-founder, One Kings Lane

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"Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished." -- Lisa Cash Hanson, Snuggwugg CEO

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I don’t know how you can learn instinct. If you figure it out, call me back. I have been more right than wrong about merchandise over the years.” – Lillian Vernon

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“How do you balance growing the business with raising a family? You just do. I had a business, a lot of orders, and a baby howling for supper. You balance it. You give your baby supper first and then get your orders in. I have worked on more holidays… but what are you going to do? – Lillian Vernon

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“It’s important to realize that brand is much more than a logo and slogan. A brand is who your company is: how you function and make decisions.”      —     Joanna McFarland, Co-founder of HopSkipDrive

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“Do not focus on numbers. Focus on doing what you do best. It’s about building a community who wants to visit your site every day because you create value and offer expertise.”      —     Cassey Ho, Founder of Blogilates.com

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“You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end.”     —     Jessica Herrin, founder and CEO of Stella & Dot

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“If you know too much before the start, then you will get overwhelmed. Come up with an original idea, and don’t copy because there will be no passion. You need that otherworldly passion. Just start.”     —     Jeni Britton Bauer, Founder of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams 

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“I really love what I do. It’s extremely motivating to me.” – Jenny Craig ki

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“My husband always tells me that I’m the most unrelenting person he’s ever met, and it’s true. If I make a commitment to something I will stick to it no matter what.” – Jenny Craig Anita Roddick – The Body Shop

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“ I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon’s advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling.” – Anita Roddick

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“It’s about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven’t a clue how we got here!” – Anita Roddick

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“There is no scientific answer for success. You can’t define it. You’ve simply got to live it and do it.” – Anita Roddick

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“We were most creative when our back was against the wall.”

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“It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.”

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 “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”      —     Sara Blakely, Founder of Spanx

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 “If Plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.”       —     Claire Cook, Author, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Motivational Speaker 

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“Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”      —      Michelle Obama, First African-American First Lady of the United States

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“We need to get women to the point where they aren’t apologizing.  It is time to take ownership in our success.”  -   Tory Burch, CEO and Designer of Tory Burch 

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“The key to success is to start before you are ready.”      - Marie Forleo, Entrepreneur, Writer and Philanthropist

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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. ~ Anna Freud (Austrian-British psychoanalyst)

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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. ~ Maya Angelou (poet)

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Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out. ~ Katherine Dunham (dancer, choreographer)

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Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. ~ Vivian Greene (writer)

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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Supreme Court Justice)

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I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all. ~ Coco Chanel (iconic fashion designer)

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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered. ~ Michelle Obama (former First Lady)

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (diplomat and activist)

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Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher (author)

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Next time, ask: what’s the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. ~ Audre Lorde (writer and activist)

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A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear. ~ Allegra Versace (Italian heiress and socialite)