businesswomen-from-the-united-states

"Over the years, I've learned that the first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and you go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one."

"I got totally made fun of for my tiny skirts."

"Connect people. It’s also my favorite thing to do. Because I travel so much for work I have amazing opportunities to meet so many people, and I’m constantly connecting them when I can see there’s synergy in their work"

"When I think back on meetings that I've done, which have been very male dominated, I tend to dress even more feminine,In terms of commanding a room, being comfortable in your own skin, being comfortable in what you're wearing (which doesn't mean you have to wear comfortable, casual clothes), but just feeling good in what you've got on is very important."

"We have a lot of challenges facing us at both the local and state level, and I look forward to rolling up my sleeves and getting the job done,”"

"For me, power dressing is how you feel in something,There are always going to be things in your closet that make you feel strong when you put it on."

"Another way to look at it is the function of Congress. We see that it just continues to decline down from 750 to 250 bills. The left-hand chart here on enacted, so the productivity of Congress, the delivery of the product to Americans continues to go down. And not only is the amount of product, so to speak, in terms of policy going down, but we don't see any correlation between the preferences of citizens and the policies come out. This is actually relatively old data."

"“I learned a lot of life lessons, but most importantly, I learned a lot of business lessons from that process. I’m proud of the path we paved, but in 2018, looking at the landscape of activity around black tech the work seemed duplicative,”"

"I started Knock Knock with the desire to write and design at the same time and to create products that had fun yet substantive editorial content in not-necessarily-book formats. The early 2000s constituted a marketplace moment when there was very little voice-driven product; instead, newly ascendant big-box retailers were targeting a lowest common denominator."

"For the most part, if you work in an industry or in an office that's very prescriptive in terms of wardrobe, while that's limiting, in a way, it makes it easier because you know what you can and can't get away with,” “That said, those types of businesses are far and few between these days. The advice I would always offer is, it's important to look polished and I think it's visible when you feel good in what you're wearing. And of course, always wear shoes you can walk in."

"Much better to figure out where the marketplace is going to be in a few years, focus on providing a solution to that, and let the market forces catch up to you."

"“I’m so grateful that the residents of West Haven recognized the importance of this critical role” that their state representative plays, “that they put their confidence in me — and I won’t let them down"

"The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal."

"On the bus, he had a book of short stories. I think it was Voltaire, I remember striking up a conversation about classic literature and Shakespeare, we immediately bonded over this kind of mutual love of classic literature and particularly Shakespeare.”"

"“One of the things that we don’t rely enough on is our own capacity to harness our grit"

"One of the most core ways to look at this is through the trust in government, which has continuously trended down since the 1960s. And is pretty stubbornly low in the 20s across administrations now. This is from Pew, long term research that they've been doing polling of American people."

"This may sound obvious, but as entrepreneurs and founders, we’re wired differently. It’s often that difference that propels us to start a business in the first place. We care deeply about what we’re doing. When we begin bringing others onto the team, it’s easy to assume they will think like you. We think they will care as much as us, which simply isn’t the case. It took me some time to realize the benefit of this."

"On the platforms that we launched we were just trying to talk about the issues and shine a light on people doing great work who weren't getting much exposure at the time,”"

"AND MY INSTANT POT. Good god. What a game changer. I love to cook, but because of work and momming I don’t always get to do the kind of cooking I love to. And that thing makes it possible for me to make things like Carnitas or Cuban black beans in an hour that I would never have time to make any other way."

"It’s incredibly important for a CEO to have the whole plan in her head which is very different than her to-do list."

"Knock Knock is known for being a pioneer in a product revolution that brought voice and point of view to the gift industry. Also, everybody knows us for putting the fun in functional with multiple choice—multiple-choice pads, cards, stickies. Why write when you could just tick a box? Putting the fun in functional definitely characterizes Knock Knock’s products—a lot of our stuff makes productivity and work fun."

"I think one of the wonderful things about the time we're going through now is that so many rules have been thrown out the window, I think there's an ease that's been brought into workwear."

"If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, "We're trying this, this week." Every week you go to investors and say, "We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge." The next week you're like, "That was a lie."

"I think there are very few people who have a capacity to see the future. So it can be difficult when you are talking about something where nothing about it exists yet"

"Venture capitalists, with the exception of people like Don Valentine, would tell you that they'd rather fund a great team than a great idea. The reason is that if they have a bad idea, great teams can figure out a better one. Mediocre people even with a great idea can screw it up in its execution. Or if they have a bad idea, then they aren't going to be in a position to think about how to change it. They're just going to pursue it blindly"

"Apparently sprinters reach their highest speed right out of the blocks, and spend the rest of the race slowing down. The winners slow down the least. It's that way with most startups too. The earliest phase is usually the most productive. That's when they have the really big ideas. Imagine what Apple was like when 100% of its employees were either Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak"

"Boris never, ever gave me favouritism. Never once did I ask him for a favour. Never once did he write a letter of recommendation for me. He didn’t know about my asking to go to trips. He only knew me as an extremely passionate entrepreneur of the London tech scene."

"the less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate."

"Of course the first initial reaction is to deny everything, and to come out making sure your side… when I saw the way I’m objectified and dragged through the press with all these misquotes and misinterpretations of who I am. If I’d looked a different way or if I was a man, I wouldn’t be objectified this way…”"

"You just need to find whatever makes you happy and do whatever make you feel a little selfish and look to take care of yourself because when you’re happy, your family will be happy,A lot of moms don’t do that. Latina moms don’t take care of themselves. It’s like, first is my baby, then it’s my husband, then are my friends, then it’s my business, then there’s this, and at the bottom of all of this, is me. What kind of mother are you going to be if you put yourself last? What kind of wife are you going to be if you make yourself last? What kind of friend are you going to be if you put yourself last?."

"Encouragement goes a long way! Recognizing people’s hard work and dedication only makes them want to give more to you and their job. You’re only as good as your employees are so giving them what they need to be their best is only going to help your company in the end. Bosses that are belittling or controlling to make themselves look better only end up hurting themselves in the end"

"I’m a strong believer in business with a purpose. I actually create specific SKU’s that are committed to giving a portion of proceeds to causes such a breast cancer treatment, children’s causes , the environment, Veterans, Puerto Rico to name a few. My company is green conscience and leaping bunny certified. Every bottle someone buys not only helps them feel more beautiful but has a purpose behind it."

"It’s crucial to determine the resilience of your employees. There is a reason everyone is familiar with the old business adage “sink or swim.” The business world is tough. Mistakes will be made. Projects will fail. Problems will arise. You need staff members who can bounce back from adversity stronger, not staff members who give up and go home"

"We all feel viscerally that it's really a barrier to American competitiveness over the long term. So they did polling of Harvard Business School alumni over the years. This is looking at comparing 2011 and 2019 polling. And what that polling alumni basically said is that people see the political system and the education system and the healthcare system as basically areas that are diminishing American competitiveness."

"“I was like, ‘I don’t want to just be in a job, where I put my head down, no one wants to hear any of my thoughts for 5 to 10 years, and then someone will let me have an idea,” Beauchamp said in an interview for POLITICO’s"

"I wanted something very ambitious, and I didn’t know what that was when I was really little. I just said, “I want to be President of the United States.” That seems like the top, right? I was hungry to try hard things. I was hungry to know what I was capable of."

"I learned a valuable lesson that day. You never know where solutions might come from. Anyone on your team might come up with an idea that can impact thousands of people worldwide. You just have to be willing to listen, try, make mistakes, and see what happens."

"I think making a conscious effort to look at the problems those entrepreneurs are solving and generally just getting out of the "bubble," which means people may not look like a young white guy coding or running a startup. It might look like a mom of 3 who is changing careers"

"Never put all your eggs in one basket” Never give too much work to one employee or vendor. It can leave you very vulnerable if something goes awry."

"If you want to be a leader in business, sometimes that means taking calculated risks. You want members on your team who have ideas, won’t back down from a challenge, seek out new growth opportunities and develop plans to make it a reality. Will the plans always be successful? No. But sometimes it’s what you learn from a failure that will ultimately lead to greatness."

"Sometimes the best deals you’ll make are the ones you won’t.” Sometimes moving past disappointment is tough but I’ve come to realize if something doesn’t work out, later on I’ve seen why it was best."

"As a founder and CEO, you’ll be pulled in a million different directions at once. Without a game plan for the day, quarter, or year ahead, you’re bound to be a slave to your inbox, the Slack chats, calls, coffees, and speaking opportunities you field on a daily basis"

"Being in Silicon Valley, I see first-hand how the power of technology, innovation, ingenuity and entrepreneurship can create “magic” that can really make a big impact in people’s lives and literally change the world. I would like to encourage the Silicon Valley community to think of how they can help spread that “magic” to the developing world, to increase the cross-collaborations with entrepreneurs from the developing world so they too can leverage the power of innovation and ingenuity to improve the living conditions of all people around the world."

".” Finally, I liked the idea of focusing on nurturing a creative studio where we got to make what we wanted and then foist it onto the marketplace to live or die, rather than working with clients or sticking to one widget. A studio felt creative enough for me to swallow what I imagined as the castor oil of business (I was an artiste, you know, and a liberal—I didn’t think we were meant to do business)."

"“I think for mothers, the number one thing is to understand that it’s okay to ask for help,” Latinas, especially moms, feel like because their moms raised four kids as immigrants with nothing and they cooked every day. I honestly don’t know how they did it. We feel like we have to do the same thing, we can’t complain, we can’t have these issues, and we can’t feel pain or ask for help because we have to be able to do everything by ourselves, which is not true. We need to remember that our moms who were able to do all that have a community around them of primas, of support."

"Understand why you are doing everything that you do. When you are purpose-driven, it is not about the to-do list, It is about achieving a bigger thing that can get ten things out of the way. It’s about deciding if this thing that you are doing is taking you a step into your purpose or away from it and if it is taking me away from it, then why am I bothering with it."

"ability and can also be so nurturing. You need to understand that what you have is very powerful. As a woman you are ahead of every man that you meet. So you need to understand that it’s a plus. You need to learn how to navigate your womanhood and take advantage of it and earn people’s trust. I can’t give you that.’"

"We Googled everything and found out how to do things,” “I feel like so many times people make things more complicated than they should be. Like, it’s not that complicated. People were asking us for the micheladas. We’ve been serving the micheladas since we opened. People would come in and ask if they could buy the mix from us so we would fill up empty tequila bottles and sell them and they would come back every weekend. By then, we had opened our online store where we shipped our mole so we started thinking about what else we could sell in our store."

"One of the most interesting aspects of working in this industry, and one that never gets old, is the consumer buy in. It’s much easier to measure buy in through sales reports. But, when it comes to grassroot events, forecasting turnout is always an unknown. For us, our first Target in-store event"

"Sometimes no just means not right now. Once I set my sights on something, I am locked in and pressing for the best possible outcome. As such, it can be disheartening for things to not go as planned, despite the hard work. As I’ve grown in my role as CEO, I’ve had to take a step back and analyze why “right now” wasn’t the “right time”. It’s this perspective that maintains my optimism and allows me to press on to continue innovating for our consumers."