Ad-Rock Quotes

I love supporting female-owned companies and women who are awesome.

There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

For the most part, I've sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do more to encourage more women to start companies.

Women are doing wonders as entrepreneurs.

I would say all power to women entrepreneurs out there.

Being a woman in control of a company - even a small private company, as ours was then - was so singular and surprising in those days that I necessarily stood out. In 1963, and for the first several years of my working life, my situation was certainly unique.

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

When more women join the labor force and, particularly, become entrepreneurs, GDP rises dramatically in those countries - in both developed and developing economies.

The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

It's very important to me to have a female venture capitalist.

When it comes to the challenges of being an entrepreneur and a female, specifically a female entrepreneur, it's something that we really have been living for a long time in a different pool.

I am a big advocate of female entrepreneurs. I do what I can to advise and help them along in their careers.

Of course, women are free to start any kind of company they want. But women sometimes identify different problems than men do and start different sorts of companies as a result.

In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.

There aren't enough women-run businesses.

We've even developed a new council with Canada to promote women's business leaders and entrepreneurs.

Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?

We sell the movies. Women need to know they are an asset and they are the ones who should be making the money.

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.

Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.