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SECRETS FOR
story by Kelsey Sunderman-Foster
here’s no shortage of inspiring women out there, and female entrepreneurs are some of the most admired of them all. Unlike the celebrities of today (many of whom are famous for
reasons that I’m still unaware of), the leaders on this list are all hard working women who have triumphed despite the obstacles they have faced. So what are their secrets for success?
J.K. Rowling, best-selling author
“It is impossible to live without failing at something,
unless you live so cautiously that you
might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you
Oprah Winfrey, talk show hostess, producer and philanthropist
“On my own I will just create, and if it
efault.”
fail by d
Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx and the youngest self-made female billionaire in America
“It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is
you become memorable.”
works, create
limitati
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Aria
it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll something else. I don’t have any
ons on what I think I could do
r be.”
nna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post
Ellen DeGeneres, comedian
“I work really hard at trying
to see the big picture and not
getting stuck in ego. I bel we’re all put on this plane a purpose, and we all ha different purpose... When
connect with that love
that compassion, that’s when everything unfolds.”
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, rst lady of the United States
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the
face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror.
I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Maya Angelou, poet, singer, memoirist and civil rights activist
“Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.”
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