“Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.”
“The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.”
“In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.”
“I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.”
“Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.”
“My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.”
“Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.”
“When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.”
“We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.”
“What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.”