“Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. ‘Here, open it, it’s perfect. You’ll love it.’ Opportunities – the good ones – are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They’re risky. They challenge you.” – Susan Diane Wojcicki CEO, Youtube
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” -Maya Angelou – American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist
“Build your business success around something that you love — something that is inherently and endlessly interesting to you.” — Martha Stewart American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality
“We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.” – Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter American singer and actress
“We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.” Sheryl Sandberg Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and the founder of LeanIn.Org
If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. Marian Wright Edelman President of the Children’s Defense Fund
“When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.” – Queen Elizabeth II Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms
