Meet The World's 10 Most Powerful Female Entrepreneurs of 2014

#3.Oprah Winfrey

Net Worth: $2.9 Billion

Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best-known for her multi-award winning talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show” which was the highest rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed as the "Queen of All Media," she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the President, Barack Obama and an honorary doctorate degree from Harvard.   

#4. Beyonce Knowles

Net Worth: $115 Million

Beyonce Knowles is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child and rose to fame in the late 1990s as a lead singer of R&B girl-group, Destiny's Child.

Beyonce has been a vocal supporter of female empowerment through her music for years. “Independent Woman” and “Who Run the World” are among her biggest hits. In May of 2012, she added another credit to her entrepreneurial CV by launching shop.beyonce.com, a branded apparel and accessory marketplace. In June 2014, Beyonce, ranked  number 1 on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list, was earning an estimated $115 million, throughout June 2013 to June 2014.  

#5.Laurene Powell Jobs

Net Worth: $16.6 Billion

Laurene Powell Jobs is an American business executive and the founder and chair of the Emerson Collective, an organization that focuses on using entrepreneurship to advance social reform and help under-resourced students, and College Track, a nonprofit college completion program.  She is also Co-founder and President of the Board of College Track which prepares disadvantaged high school students for college.

She controls the Steven P. Jobs Trust, now known as the Laurene Powell Jobs Trust, which is the largest individual shareholder in Disney, holding more than 130 million shares, a stake left to her by her late husband, Steve Jobs.

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