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95-year-old Iris Apfel says young women must grab opportunity
Fashion icon and interior decorator Iris Apfel, at age 95, has some advice
for young female entrepreneurs: When opportunity presents itself, take it and
run with it.
"Taking opportunity and running is very important, because I never had a
business plan in my life. Things just came along and I grabbed them," Apfel said
Friday at the Women's Entrepreneurship Day conference at the United Nations.
According to organizers, Women's Entrepreneurship Day (WED) is a day
celebrated in 144 countries on Nov. 19. It's also the name of an organization
that seeks to eliminate poverty by empowering, celebrating and supporting women
in business worldwide.
WED also announced that it is launching a portal ChooseWomen.org on Nov. 30
that will allow consumers to shop with retailers who support women-owned
businesses.
"I'm glad to see all these glass ceilings are being smashed and I know I feel
that if women were a little more forceful and stuck to it there wouldn't be so
much of this feeling," Apfel said. "I know when I started, the dinosaurs were
roaming the Earth, I'm 95 and I've been working my whole life. It wasn't easy
but if you really want to do it, you can do it."
