Donald Trump Quotes

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

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.

I enjoy business. I enjoy inspiring women.

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

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.

In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

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

Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

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

As a CEO, I want to show women that there are no limits to what they can achieve, whether through entrepreneurship, government, science or any path they choose, and there is plenty of room for women at the top.

There's only two things that I really care about - apart from family - one is business and the other is women in business.

We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.

I support women-run business.

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

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.

Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.

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

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

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.

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

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

Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.

I have to give a lot of credit to Sandy Weill, because he gets it. He gets the power of the women's contribution to the economy.