Entrepreneur Female Quotes

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

Do your best in the day, for the day, and then work on tomorrow when it comes. Show yourself grace and laugh at yourself.

We each have a unique path to walk in this life, and there is a reason that yours is unfolding the way that it is. Embrace your journey and look for the lessons. Believe in divine timing and know that what’s for you will not pass you.

Wisdom is meant to be shared, so let’s start sharing what we’ve learned to make each other better. Let’s start building each other up. Let’s live up to our potential and start ruling the world.

Before you can decide on your brand fonts, colors or imagery, let alone your messaging, you need to know who you're trying to attract first.

You know a woman is strong, beautiful, and secure by the way she empowers and inspires others.

Customer service has everything to do with consistency, systems, training, and the habits you and your team create.

Exceptional customer service proactively manages your brand and reactively can turn upset customers into raving fans based on how you handled their complaint.

Creating a company culture is the first operational step in becoming a bold, brave fempreneur. It creates certainty, a road map and stability.

It’s all about persevering and letting your passion drive you. When you have passion, you cannot fail. The world simply cannot reject anyone or anything that comes from a place of passion. Stay focused on what you love, keep going, and trust that those who are meant to get your message will.

Some women think being arrogant, selfish, bitter and looking down on others are qualities of being an Independent, strong, powerful and successful business women. No matter how high you are in life. Never look down on others and never forget humanity.

You must envision your world through the eyes of positivity and possibility. The moment you do that, you open up a world of endless abundance.

Never wish for it more than you work for it.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” – Danielle LaPorte

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran

Understanding who isn’t your ideal customer sometimes helps you better clarify who is.

There is absolutely no shame in having desires, and the sooner you own them, the sooner they will flow to you.

A well-dressed, self-assured business executive steps into a quiet corner of the conference room, crowded with people. Everyone there is aware of her presence. She's dark-haired, petite, and alluring. She is quick to smile, and when she does, her whole face lights up. Her enthusiasm is infectious. Young men and women nod as they pass by, briefly breaking off their conversations with colleagues. The executive looks down at her compact electronic device and quickly texts: "Smile. Talk into the mic. Good luck.

There are absolutely no limits on what you can achieve. Your possibilities are truly endless, and you have the power to create the life and business of your dreams. You must find the place inside of you where everything is possible.

Her emergence tapped into the public’s hunger to see a female entrepreneur break through in a technology world dominated by men. Women like Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg had achieved a measure of renown in Silicon Valley, but they hadn’t created their own companies from scratch. In Elizabeth Holmes, the Valley had its first female billionaire tech founder.

Your mission statement, vision statement, core values, and service standards provide a clear focus for all while keeping your team humble and hungry. It creates that family environment in which your employees enjoy coming to work and dealing with the challenges they face each day.

Reputation is everything when it comes to building a digital brand

Just do you. The right people and opportunities will be drawn to that.

Sorry, Sister. You're not “normal.” You're exceptional. You're a Bombshell. If this was easy, everyone would be a successful business owner.

My greatest joy is in helping others be their best.

Your mission statement outlines why your company exists. It doesn’t have to be all fancy-pants, just a clear statement of what you do.

The thing is, If you try to market to everyone, then you successfully market to no one.

To set yourself up for success, you need to be real about what you can commit to consistently.

Even if you delegate that responsibility, ultimately you are the one responsible for how your brand is portrayed.

Never take lightly that becoming an employer puts another person’s ability to provide for their life in your hands.

Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn’t happen.

Cheaper does not always equal better.

When you have a strong company culture it will shine through your brand and you can authentically say, “This is what our brand is about.

Dr. Seuss so eloquently put it, “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

When you’re scared of something, whatever it is, you have to go at it head on. You create your own destiny.

With a strong personal brand, you become the only option in the eyes of your ideal customer.

A plan is not putting you in a box and forcing you to stay there. A plan is a guide to keep you on course, efficient, and safe.

When you feel copied, remember that people can only go where you have already been, they have no idea where you are going next.” – Liz Lange Let

they don't serve champagne at pity parties

you will evolve. Not everyone will get it. Evolve anyway. When

Who cares what insecure people think who are insanely jealous that you are OK with yourself?

Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent.

Love, compassion, care, listening, communicating—these aren’t secondary skills. They’re of primary importance.

Leadership is not about command and control: that’s for the army.

Your ideal customer should be attracted to the brand that rests on the fabulous culture you created, but they don’t have to share your personal interests or have the same lifestyle you do.

It all feels rather catch-22ish. In a field where women are at a disadvantage specifically because they are women (and therefore can’t hope to fit a stereotypically male ‘pattern’), data will be particularly crucial for female entrepreneurs. And yet it’s the female entrepreneurs who are less likely to have it, because they are more likely to be trying to make products for women. For whom we lack data.

Plan B” is nonsense. Successful people come up with plans A, B, C, D . . . all the way to Z. That’s how life works. If you’re not constantly looking for and testing solutions, that’s probably why you’re on the hamster wheel that you’re on right now.

The bottom line is that no matter what you’ve experienced in life, no matter what kind of trauma you’ve been through, no matter what bad decisions you’ve made, if you accept the realities of your situation, you can properly address them with a plan and with action.

Black female entrepreneurs don’t make excuses, we find solutions. We’re leaders, resourceful, ambitious, hardworking, and creative. We’re powerful, unstoppable, confident, smart, and fearless. We’re Exquisite Black Queens that represent Black Excellence… We are success! There’s no denying it… Black female entrepreneurs are resilient and we rock!

When I say we, I'm referring to society: copywriters, companies, and overall general opinion; I am in no way taking personal responsibility. We/they market to women like they are giant toddlers. This endless, pejorative, female-targeted infantilization of the English language when it's directed toward women: "Mama Bear needs her beauty rest!" "Rockstar gal gets her glam on!" "Work it, she-entrepreneur!" "Be a diva-licious ass-kicker in stilettos! The biggest, badass, boss-babe in herstory! The fiercest, she-matologist working in the blood lab!" This pervasive rhetoric is basically watered down, digestible empowerment designed to get a woman's money. It's the advertising equivalent of a "Live Laugh Love" sign.

Tell them about your blog. What is your blog about? Try to narrow it down to a theme. For example, my theme is intentional leadership. Next explain what kinds of things you write about. I think it is best to limit yourself to a handful of categories. The more focused your content, the more readers you will attract. Kate McCulley’s About page on Adventurous Kate’s Solo Female 104 Travel Blog gives a few fun facts about Kate (she has been shipwrecked and once made a pass at Jon Stewart; she quit her job to travel the world), and then dives right into her theme: I am a solo traveler at heart, and one of my goals is to show women that solo travel can be safe, easy, cheap and a lot of fun. Meanwhile, I’m committed to showing you what the lifestyle of a long-term traveler and online entrepreneur is like. Like anyone else in the world, I have good times and bad times, but I promise to show you reality—with honesty and humor.3

Find another solution. That’s how you move toward success.

Ain’t nobody gonna separate from their cold hard cash unless they have an unresolved problem, so if you want to make money, you have to be incredibly clear about what problem(s) you solve.

Determine how you are going to measure your success.

Your company culture is made up of the family rules of your business that establish consistent expectations among all.

When you create a company culture, you are drawing your lines in the sand for you, first & then for anyone else who does business with you.

By not stepping into your greatness, you are letting down everyone around you whom you can inspire, touch, or influence.

Be sure to ask for help, and vent or brag on your progress along the way.

Creating a plan to bring in more business in a way that does not ultimately support your annual goals is fighting against yourself.

You can’t measure a person by model year; you have to measure that person by their mileage.

Be a person of character people can count on.

I’ve always said we can’t all experience everything, but we can all learn from each other’s experiences, making learning curves shorter and pitfalls avoidable.

Good influences are positive, and they see the good in even bad situations.

Whether networking comes naturally for you or is some seriously scary stuff, it is important to be intentional about every networking opportunity you decide to pursue.

Remember that businesses are made up of humans like you. They aren’t going to be perfect and they will need encouragement, clarification, and correction to deliver their best.

Always, always, always smile.

Walk a mile in your customers’ stilettos or loafers. Try to understand where they are in the moment.

Follow through. You’d be surprised how many people don’t do that. If you have to stay up all night to get it done,n then do that. If you consistently see that you cannot actually get things done in the time frame you committed to, stop over committing.

Be clear about what it is you do, and you will find it becomes clear who your competition is, how to market your business, what resources are available to you, and what type of complementary businesses can help you succeed faster.

Your culture is the birthplace of your brand.

You want how you do business to be consistent among all team members, including partners, management, employees, and even vendors.

Well, I admit it. I’m a people addict, and I don’t want to quit!

Make no mistake: if you want to make it as an entrepreneur, you simply can’t do it on your own. This is a nonnegotiable!

Time cannot be managed. It’s going to pass you by, whether or not you are trying to manage it.

Time management is reactive, whereas time strategy is proactive.

I love, love, love—love to plan.

Batching or “bucketing” your tasks is ripping the Band- Aid off whenever you have to deal with ongoing activities.

Bucketing your time or your tasks keeps you in the zone.

Raise your hand if your calendar ever makes you feel the need for an oxygen mask!

I call dealing with your calendar the “calendar boogie” because you seriously have to dance around to pull it all together.

I’m telling you that responsibly applying time strategy and proactively leveraging your calendar is the dumb ol’ secret to seeing your dreams come true.

If you were stranded in the ocean in a small boat with a paddle, I’d tell you to pray to God, but row for the shore!

Remember that businesses are made up of humans like you. They aren’t going to be perfect and they will need encouragement, clarification, and correction to deliver their best.

Treat your employees like you would want to be treated if you were an employee.

I pick my technology like I picked my husband. It has to complement, not complicate, my life.

David and Neil were MBA students at the Wharton School when the cash-strapped David lost his eyeglasses and had to pay $700 for replacements. That got them thinking: Could there be a better way? Neil had previously worked for a nonprofit, VisionSpring, that trained poor women in the developing world to start businesses offering eye exams and selling glasses that were affordable to people making less than four dollars a day. He had helped expand the nonprofit’s presence to ten countries, supporting thousands of female entrepreneurs and boosting the organization’s staff from two to thirty. At the time, it hadn’t occurred to Neil that an idea birthed in the nonprofit sector could be transferred to the private sector. But later at Wharton, as he and David considered entering the eyeglass business, after being shocked by the high cost of replacing David’s glasses, they decided they were out to build more than a company—they were on a social mission as well. They asked a simple question: Why had no one ever sold eyeglasses online? Well, because some believed it was impossible. For one thing, the eyeglass industry operated under a near monopoly that controlled the sales pipeline and price points. That these high prices would be passed on to consumers went unquestioned, even if that meant some people would go without glasses altogether. For another, people didn’t really want to buy a product as carefully calibrated and individualized as glasses online. Besides, how could an online company even work? David and Neil would have to be able to offer stylish frames, a perfect fit, and various options for prescriptions. With a $2,500 seed investment from Wharton’s Venture Initiation Program, David and Neil launched their company in 2010 with a selection of styles, a low price of $95, and a hip marketing program. (They named the company Warby Parker after two characters in a Jack Kerouac novel.) Within a month, they’d sold out all their stock and had a 20,000-person waiting list. Within a year, they’d received serious funding. They kept perfecting their concept, offering an innovative home try-on program, a collection of boutique retail outlets, and an eye test app for distance vision. Today Warby Parker is valued at $1.75 billion, with 1,400 employees and 65 retail stores. It’s no surprise that Neil and David continued to use Warby Parker’s success to deliver eyeglasses to those in need. The company’s Buy a Pair, Give a Pair program is unique: instead of simply providing free eyeglasses, Warby Parker trains and equips entrepreneurs in developing countries to sell the glasses they’re given. To date, 4 million pairs of glasses have been distributed through Warby Parker’s program. This dual commitment to inexpensive eyewear for all, paired with a program to improve access to eyewear for the global poor, makes Warby Parker an exemplary assumption-busting social enterprise.

External failure has no real correlation to spiritual failure. For a spiritual entrepreneur, external failure is often essential for spiritual success.

Understanding who we are, how God created us, how we grow, and how we give those gifts back to others is core work of the spiritual entrepreneur.

Liminal space is the norm on the path of a spiritual entrepreneur because the nature of doing something tangible in the world, while maintaining a spiritual focus, requires constant transformation.

The collective action of spiritual entrepreneurs and their allies can contribute to creating a world that feels like heaven on earth.

When you embrace your fear, you become fearless.

The next time you see a woman in business doing her thing and achieving major results, I want you to first and foremost send her love, and secondly I want you to imagine something amazing happening for yourself.

None of those things would have happened, however, if I did not believe they were possible. If they can happen for me, they can surely happen for you, too. You’ve just got to believe. You’ve got to believe, with all of your heart, that you can make it happen for yourself. You must believe you are worthy of your desires, and that you have all the tools within you to achieve success. You must release blame, guilt, fear, stress, and any other negative emotion that does not serve you.

You must envision your world through the eyes of positivity and possibility. The moment you do that, you open up a world of endless abundance.

Your reality is yours and yours alone. And it should be as fabulous as you want it to be.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

And remember – just because something doesn’t work out one way does not mean it can’t work out another way. Take a deep breath, regroup, and keep moving forward. And when in doubt, channel Oprah or Marilyn. I’m happy to call myself a failure if I’m in their company.

Why has this formula worked? Because it is my own. It wouldn’t work if I were replicating another person’s idea. It works because it’s mine. Just like your formula will only work for you.

Create Things You Wish Existed

If you’re feeling lost, or wishing you had a mentor or a positive role model, know that you have everything within you to inspire yourself. Dig deep within your soul and call upon your strengths to push you forward. Look back to situations where you overcame, and use those moments to prove to yourself that you can do anything and be anyone you want to be.