International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. In commemoration of the 2022 International Women’s Day, we have compiled a list of the 22 most inspiring quotes by female tech leaders. #IWD2022 #BreakTheBias
Here is a list of the 22 most inspiring quote by female tech leader:
- The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description. - Caterina Fake (Co-Founder, Flickr)
- Life doesn’t always present you with the perfect opportunity at the perfect time. Opportunities come when you least expect them, or when you’re not ready for them. Rarely are opportunities presented to you in the perfect way, in a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. Opportunities, the good ones, they’re messy and confusing and hard to recognize. They’re risky. They challenge you - Susan Wojcicki (CEO of Youtube)
- Be flexible. It’s paramount to understand that continuing to do what made you successful in the past may not be where your future is. - Safra Catz (CEO of Oracle Corporation)
- We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. - Sheryl Sandberg (COO, Facebook)
- Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.” – Ursula Burns (Former CEO of Xerox)
- Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career. - Meg Whitman (Former CEO of eBay & Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
- The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company. - Ginni Rometty (Former CEO of IBM)
- If you know where you are going, you have this sixth sense about if everything you do along the way is lined up with that. - Diane Greene (Founder of VMWare & Former CEO of Google Cloud)
- Always know your merit and how special you are, and don’t let someone else’s qualifications make you feel small. If you stick to this, you will always deserve their respect. - Whitney Wolfe Herd (Founder/CEO of Bumble)
- If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen. - Marissa Meyer (Former CEO of Yahoo)
- Solve customer problems and make sure that the customer is representative of a large market and then you will have a pretty good formula. - Melanie Perkins (Co-Founder & CEO of Canva)
- Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones. - Leah Busque (Founder, TaskRabbit)
- If you’re not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you’ll be left behind. - Gwynne Shotwell (COO, SpaceX)
- Stick to your true north― build greatness for the long term. - Ruth Porat (Chief Financial officer (CFO) of Alphabet Inc.
- You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect. - Rosalind Brewer (CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance)
- Failures are life’s way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school. - Sara Blakely (Founder of Spanx)
- Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.-Oprah Winfrey
- People don’t take opportunities because the timing is bad, the financial side unsecure. Too many people are overanalyzing. Sometimes you just have to go for it. - Michelle Zatlyn (Co-founder & COO of CloudFlare)
- We have to give ourselves permission to fall down and to have missteps and set-backs in order to grow and be unapologetic about our journey. -Thasunda Brown Duckett (CEO of TIAA)
- We learn too much everyday to be satisfied with yesterday’s achievements - Estée Lauder (Co-Founder, Estée Lauder)
- Remember: if the most unique ideas were obvious to everyone, there wouldn’t be entrepreneurs. The one thing that every entrepreneurial journey has in common is that there are many, many steps on the road to success.- Tory Burch (Founder, Tory Burch LLC)
- Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent. - Debbi Fields (Founder of Mrs Fields)