Top 92 Successful Woman Quotes
#1. In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
Zainab Salbi
#2. Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
Harold Coffin
#3. I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.
Stephanie Allain
#4. We paused to nod in deference to a just-arrived mom of six who placed third in her age group in the Ironman and has a successful catering business, No Small Affair. Everyone suspects she's on meth but still, the woman commands respect.
Elisabeth Egan
#5. A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
Donatella Versace
#6. It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.
Rosalind Russell
#7. Bussiness is a part of my life,business is my stairway to heaven, I will be the successful business woman
Faiz Triumph
#8. If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.
Patti Stanger
#9. She emanated that aura of grandeur that replaces sexual allure in the successful older woman.
Robert Galbraith
#10. I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."
Donna Tartt
#11. Leaving 'things' up to chance is the lazy man's mantra. The successful man takes action every day, until his purpose is fulfilled."
- Daliah Husu -
Daliah Husu
#12. The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.
Napoleon Hill
#13. Behind every successful woman are people who bring out the best in her, encourage her and cheer her on!
Tanya Masse
#14. Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it.
James Dobson
#16. In our culture it is a woman's body which is considered important while it is a man's mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful.
Alleen Pace Nilsen
#18. Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.
Andy Paula
#19. CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.
Jay Leno
#20. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.
Ernest Hemingway,
#21. A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#22. A powerful studio boss doesn't want to be bested by a woman, even in chess. And a successful agent steps on a lot of toes. You lose actors jobs so you can get them for your own clients.
Sue Mengers
#23. The twenty-first-century successful black woman is brilliant and tenacious and not afraid to flex her intellectual, spiritual, or financial muscles. She has accomplished, earned, and owned more than black women of any other generation in American history.
Sophia Nelson
#24. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner
#25. I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Shirley Bassey
#26. Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.
Sheryl Sandberg
#27. I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.
Julie Delpy
#28. There is always something good and unique in the life of every woman so put those talents and wisdom to good use today, by so doing you will make your world a better place than you met it.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#29. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less. This truth is both shocking and unsurprising: shocking because no one would ever admit to stereotyping on the basis of gender and unsurprising because clearly we do.
Sheryl Sandberg
#30. Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s ... in the '70s it's getting simpler.
Helen Gurley Brown
#31. Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself.
Tony Gaskins
#32. I think most couples drift apart because of comparisons. Unfortunately, in our society a perfect match is when the man is more successful than the woman.
Sonam Kapoor
#33. Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
Helen Gurley Brown
#34. I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
Gal Gadot
#35. I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.
Susan Stroman
#36. Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#37. When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
Billie Jean King
#38. To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir
#39. People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man ... I'm the boss.
Lily Allen
#41. A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.
Orlan
#42. I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.
Helen Reddy
#43. Behind every successful woman are several confused men who give her something to make fun of.
Sarah Miller
#44. Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady Gaga
#45. I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who left and actually did something with her life. Then died.
Ally Spina
#46. It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
Shirley Bassey
#47. I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.
Peggy Guggenheim
#48. Controlling for a large number of additional variables, they found that firms with at least one woman among the first hires were more successful and stayed longer in the market than all-male start-ups.
Iris Bohnet
#49. Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
Maya Angelou
#50. Men always do that to women when they feel threatened. They tell everybody the woman must be giving out blow jobs because there's no way she could be successful otherwise.
Jennifer Echols
#51. You know, women are burdened with all this other crap all the time, like looking good. You need to be really superhuman to be successful as a woman.
Bonnie McFarlane
#52. As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men.
Sheryl Sandberg
#53. I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.
Megalyn Echikunwoke
#54. There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.
Hillary Clinton
#55. I see myself as a very successful entrepreneur. Maybe making films or else starting my own clothesline. I see myself as a corporate woman, sitting on the 16th floor of a swank office with a glass window that overlooks the Manhattan skyline.
Sushmita Sen
#56. There is tremendous need in today's world to "be successful" when the world looks at you as a woman and a Christian. Prayers alone does not produce Success nor entirely a matter of background, intelligence or education but attraction of VIRTUE!
Ibiloye Abiodun Christian
#57. A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac.
Curtis Jackson
#58. To bear a child or to get married is not the primary goal for a lady who wants to become successful in life
Sunday Adelaja
#59. Traditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#60. In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah.
Rabih Alameddine
#61. Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too; her father.
Shahla Khan
#62. That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#63. Any advice for how to be a successful author?"
"Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.
Michelle Franklin
#64. Dating a successful man/woman will never make you successful.Success is not sexually transmitted.
Bonakala Bsac
#65. We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable.
Brooke Shields
#66. Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
Yulia Tymoshenko
#67. I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.
Martha Stewart
#68. The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
Swami Vivekananda
#69. People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
Alveda King
#70. I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.
Jill Scott
#71. I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.
Helen Gurley Brown
#72. There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#73. If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
Kangana Ranaut
#74. A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.
Raquel Cassidy
#75. The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.
Sharon Stone
#76. You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.
Ruzwana Bashir
#77. The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the same way.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#78. Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman.
Stephie Davis
#79. One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick?
Donna Lynn Hope
#80. Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
Mark Twain
#81. In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#82. Women who have managed to get successful normally have had to carve out pretty much their own route for doing it, because there are few roadmaps for how, as a woman, you become successful. You think about having to do it yourself, you carve your own way. Does that relate to being Jewish?
Noreena Hertz
#83. I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.
Edmund White
#84. Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.
Jacqueline Bisset
#85. I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.
Dan Quayle
#86. In all successful relationships, the man respects the woman - and it takes a special guy to handle a successful woman. You have to be confident in who you are and what you do.
Laird Hamilton
#87. There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
George Matthew Adams
#88. If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.
Leona Helmsley
#89. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
Groucho Marx
#90. As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
P.C. Cast
#91. No man or woman is uniformly successful ... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
Barnaby Keeney
#92. I dress some of the most successful women in the world, and meeting these women rubs off on you. A few years ago, the woman was someone I imagined in my head. Now they're real. It's important my work evolve along with me and that I show more facets of myself.
Jason Wu
