Gayle Tzemach Lemmon People Quotations

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.

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.

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.

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.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.