It’s a man’s world’ as they say, but in history and in modern times, women have also played a very important part in society. In fact, some of these highly influential women entrepreneurs have outperformed their male equivalent. From powerful leaders to media king women often have had to fight against far harder offs than their male counterparts to get their respective rank of influence.

Here are The Top 10 Most Influential & Successful Female Entrepreneurs

#10 – Sheryl Sandberg

Although Facebook was certainly very popular before her arrival on board in 2008, it was not easy to see how the site would make an earning worthy of its valuation. Not only did she help to achieve those expectations that came with such a big valuation of a site yet to make a real income, she also helped heavily beat them.




Since she came on board as Facebook’s second number, it’s user base raised more than 10 times to around 11% of the world’s population, and the business is on course to post huge profits that are rumoured to cause the company to be valued around the $100 billion mark, which is almost half the GDP of Ireland. It was her task to cast Facebook, and she did it very successfully.




She would have been much higher in the top ten list if it wasn’t for the fact that Facebook was destined to overthrow the world on account of it being a very good idea, but everything she was tasked to do, she did very well and therefore deserve her place amongst the top ten women entrepreneurs.

#9 – JK Rowling

This single and struggling mother wrote a book that procured a generation of video gamers and tv addicts back to reading books to work on their imaginations once again. JK Rowling‘s Harry Potter books are one of the best-selling books of all time, she managed to hatch a major feature film series and a franchise that also assimilates a totally functioning theme park in strong competition with Disney. Her influence not only affects millions of children all over the world, but has also attracted many adults into her world.

#8 – Sara Blakely

From a woman who once went door-to-door to sell fax machines for 7 years, to failing her life long dream of becoming a lawyer and then creating “Spanx“, a multi-million dollar undergarment company, you would no doubtly agree to say that Sara Blakely is a modern day “Wonder Woman”.




Sara Blakely has secured her area as the world’s youngest self-made women billionaire with a current net worth of $1 Billion.

#7 – Lady Gaga

Whatever you think of her music and fashion tastes, there is no revoking that she has become an extraordinary successful women within a very short period of time and one of the most successful women in music today made earning Lady Gaga her rank as number 8 in the list of top female entrepreneurs.




Born Stefanie Germanotta, Lady Gaga is predicted to be worth nearly $100 million at the tender age of 25. The reason for her fortune is, unlike many of her peers, she writes her own music, making her a huge income in royalties.

#6 – Susan Wojcicki

Susan Wojcicki can absolutely claim to be one of the most entrepreneur women in business owing to her being Senior Vice President at the search engine giant Google, She has been responsible to help turn a great idea into a very profitable idea.




Susan is principally in charge of the advertising revenue side of Google.

#5 – Melinda Gates

Although her husband Bill Gates is chiefly responsible for their wealth, she is responsible for talking him into the co-foundation of a charitable organisation with the money which was made from Bill’s empire. Bill Gates has stated that when he dies, all of his $40 billion fortune will have been used on good causes.




Bill Gates and Melinda have already donated $27 billion to charitable causes.

#4 – Indra Nooyi

Born in Calcutta, India, Indra Nooyi is one of the most powerful women in business who has held executive positions in many of the world’s top companies.




She is at present the Chairwoman and CEO of Pepsico which is the second largest food and drink company in the world. She has not only excelled in business but also in academic, earning degrees in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and also an MBA in management in India, she then acquired a Master’s degree in Public and Private Management at Yale in 1980.

#3 – Angela Merkel

Huge responsibility rests on this ladies shoulders as a leader of Europe’s most powerful and richest economy, Germany. Her influence and alignment skills are likely to affect millions and billions of Europeans and otherpeople all around the world. The global economy completely is in her hands.




She is Germany’s first female leader and her decisions are highly likely to brunt the history of Germany.

#2 – Oprah Winfrey

No list of the top women entrepreneurs can be completed without Oprah.




Worth an approx of $2.7 billion, it is no wonder that she can afford to give away free cars to her audience members, her fortune has been greatly down to creating television that all people love to watch. And not only being content with coming up on the TV, she has excelled in many other forms of media. For being influential, she had president Obama on her show twice, amongst many other world-famous people she has also donated 100s of millions to make this planet a better place.

#1 – Cher Wang

Cher ranks so high on this list as she is perhaps the most successful female entrepreneur in this whole world. Her wealth is mainly of her own making rather than being down to working for a firm or being born wealthy.




She has spent many years manufacturing cell phones for other people which earned her a great fortune, it wasn’t until when she set-up her own company HTC, that her wealth really took off. She has an estimated worth of $6.8 billion, her HTC smartphones have rapidly gain fame and in 2010, accounted for 22% of the smartphone market.




Many may not have heard of her, but she is undoubtedly influential and her income is absolutely down to her own wits rather than any other factor, that’s why Cher Wang deserves the topmost spot on any list of the top ten most influential women entrepreneurs.














All of these women are very successful entrepreneurs in their own way. All have had to overcome high obstacle of failure to reach their ultimate destination, and all of them have greatly influenced millions and billions of people all around the world. These successful female entrepreneurs have added so much to our lives and serve as great inspiration for other women wishing to achieve their success in life.