Women’s Entrepreneurship Day is globally celebrated on November 19 every year to promote entrepreneurship among women and to recognise their contributions in the business world.
1. Oprah Winfrey: “Follow your passion — and if you don’t know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.”
2. Sheryl Sandberg, COO at Facebook: “I want every little girl who’s been told she’s bossy to be told again she has leadership skills.
3. Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop: “Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as a 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.”
4. Arianna Huffington, co-founder of Huffington Post: “Don’t just climb the ladder of success – a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout – but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.”
5. Anne Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube: “If you want to change this world, this community we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.”
6. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of World Trade Organization: “Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream is even smarter economics.”
7. Estée Lauder: “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
8. Marissa Meyer, CEO, Yahoo!: “Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.”
9. Himanshu Bhatia, Founder and CEO, Rose International: “As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behaviour you want others to follow.”
10. Barbara Corcoran, real estate magnate and ‘Shark Tank’ investor: “The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.”