15 inspiring quotes from female business leaders that will change your perspective

We wanted to kick off 2021 with 15 of our favorite business-related inspiration quotes, all from female business leaders, of course.  Cheers to a successful and inspiring new year.

1-) “There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention to the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.” – Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo

2-) “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo

3-) “Don’t cut off your career branches too early. Don’t step away from your career based on what ‘might’ happen.” – Mary Barra, chairman and CEO of General Motors

4-) “I was taught to strive, not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” – Madeleine Albright, first female U.S. Secretary of State

5-) “I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t.” – Dee Dee Myers, former White House Press Secretary

6-) “The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake.” – Meg Whitman, CEO of Quibi

7-) “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder, co-founder of Estée Lauder

8 -) “We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.” – Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay

9-) “My best successes came on the heels of failures.” – Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul and co-star of ABC’s Shark Tank

10-) “Creating the culture of burnout is the opposite of creating a culture of sustainable creativity.” – Arianna Huffington, author and co-founder of The Huffington Post

11-) “I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?’” – Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit

12-) “Don’t waste a single second. Just move forward as fast as you can and go for it.” – Rebecca Woodcock, Principal at Yamaha Motor Vehicles

13-) “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States and political activist

14-) “Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they’re doing it.” – Marillyn Hewson, Chairman and former President and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Martin

15-) “The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don’t want.” – Iyanla Vanzant, author, life coach, and television personality

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