Meet The Most Successful Female Entrepreneur In American History | Forbes
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- Diane Hendricks had a child at age 17, worked as a Playboy Bunny to pay her bills, beat cancer twice and survived the tragic death of her husband before transforming herself into the nation’s most successful businesswoman. She has tripled her net worth in the last five years to more than $12 billion. Next: fixing the country’s schools and infrastructure before we red, white and blow it.
Hendricks believes in the American Dream because she has lived it. A teen mom who once worked as a waitress to pay her bills, she cofounded ABC Supply with her husband, Ken, in 1982 and built it into the nation’s largest wholesale distributor of roofing, siding and windows. After Ken died in 2007, Hendricks continued the business’s rapid expansion, buying rivals and more than doubling its store count to 900. Revenue hit a record $15 billion in 2021. “We’ll do close to $18 billion this year in sales,” Hendricks says. “It’s not a little company anymore. It’s five times what it was when Ken was alive.”
0:00 Introducing Diane Hendricks
0:15 Hendricks On How Her Upbringing Shaped Her Career Mindset
4:34 How She Built A Successful Business With Her Husband
10:28 How Hendricks Positioned ABC Supply At The Top Of A Male-Dominated Industry
11:58 Smart Risks & Acquisitions: How ABC Supply Grew During 2008's Housing Market Crisis
16:56 Hendricks' Best Business Idea
18:58 Hendricks' Mission To Improve Education
21:21 Reflections On A Long Career
25:04 Looking Ahead To An Uncertain Economic Future
27:40 How It Feels To Be America's Richest Self-Made Woman
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Great interview. I’m impressed with the fact that Mrs. Hendricks mentioned about her secret for success, and she said that is is based on hiring people with integrity. In todays world, if people see that one has integrity, they try to take advantage of that one, and the pain goes to one’s muscles, back and neck. The world needs more people with integrity. Great interview!
well said!
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She’s helped out my home town of Beloit so much. Everyone in this little city loves her!!
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Nice interview. Mrs. Hendricks should write a book. It would be a great legacy. At 75 and she looks amazing. Very inspiring classy lady.
She looks "amazing"? Why do women need to have so much plastic surgery as to try and look younger?
She's SEVENTY-FIVE!? NO WAY!
I’m not sure that I really respect women business owners because they only hire women and their businesses and basically marketed to only other women.
So many inspiring words that are right on point! Behind any business success lies a great team.
Hendricks has had so many fascinating experiences throughout her life. I would love to hear more. Thanks so much for a great interview.
I work for ABC Supply and always love hearing these stories.
How are their wages?
Amazing interview. So inspiring! I’m so glad she is doing good things with her position of power. A very humble and kind woman with so much wisdom!
Mrs. Hendricks hard work,, risk taking, belief in self and spiritual faith, proves never quitting are keys to an abundant life.
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Love this kind of content. Great work!
Beautiful and insightful… thank you both Forbes and Diana.
This is proof: leadership and support literally change a business and its opportunity.
Hello, Saturday. How are you doing today?
She's great. Love her answers to the predictable gender questions
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Nice interview to hear about the life of a female entrepreneur. Great independent spirit and nice to hear how she is passing down the message that working and earning and giving back to community is important.
Very interesting and inspiring. Thank you for sharing! 💯
The very best company I've ever worked for! For example, my old manager just retired a couple years ago as a millionaire. And he was a high school drop out, started as a helper and climbed the ladder! Everything the stated was truth!
Thank you for this interview 🙏 I love hearing success stores of people who have worked hard to be successful!
70 some years old and still rocks those stilettos! I love it!
I was thinking the same thing!!!
Hello, Andrea. How are you doing today?
I love the concept of a school that makes children decide what they will do to make a living before they graduate high school. I have been advocating for mentors and apprenticeships in even junior high school. They must start early and be prepared to work. Right now they play video games all night long and sleep all day. Thank you so much.
Beautiful and powerful story, thank you!
Priceless interview
Wow what an incredible woman. Thank you for doing this interview. I feel so inspired
Do business with good people. And you'll always have a thriving & successful business. I LOVE her words of wisdom and expertise. 💞
Thank you Diane for investing in Beloit, WI!!
Diane, you’re an inspiration! You’ve motivated me and thank you so much for the advise.
This was absolutely amazing and insightful, she's brilliant.
Wow how I am inspired! Your story(testimony)truly I feel in powered by Mrs. Hendricks. Never quit do everything in integrity, I work in Roofing company and now I feel so different towards it by her story. How it goes beyond Roofing supplies her experience in pursuing her dream and giving back. Is a blessing of a well living life. God bless you 😊💞I want all the energy around me!!!
Her history of life is inspiring. My respects Mrs. Hendricks!
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This is such a great story of a woman.💌
Great interview. The plan for school and hiring the right people to educate, and consider the student's needs and parents' wants. I believe the structure needs consideration of overall mental health and focus on goals that consistently needs to be met.
Great interview!!!
@26:13 - it’s hard to separate myself by gender - yes!!! I would bet that’s a big reason behind much of her success. Sometimes it feels like we are mining in an imaginary box of boundaries.
I learned a lot from this interview, thank you for posting it.
Wow nice interview. Very inspiring and a lot of ideas to be learn from.
What an impressive person! Great hearing about her giving back and the philanthropy
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My inspiration 🙌🏾
such an inspiring story!
The American Queen of Business!! I hope to shake hands with this woman one day.
Same! So inspired right now.
I have. She is tiny!
Congratulations to Mirs Hendricks. A very interesting her/story!
Madam CJ Walker is the most successful women entrepreneur in American history.
She was the first one that came to my mind
Yes this lady just worked
with her husband. Buy still good job.
And that’s on the gang
No she not 😂 there’s more successful women nowadays
She looks so well put together
A true inspiration!
This is great!
‘The sky’s the limit for Women’ - Diane Hendricks
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So inspirational on many levels!
Hello, dear. How are you doing today?
Great interview. Phenomenal woman.
This video is incredibly inspiring-what an amazing story of success and perseverance! It's empowering to see such a trailblazing female entrepreneur making history.
She’s done wonders to Beloit, its definitely a before and after type thing. it’s so pretty whenever I’m there
You forgot to mention that you already had a large amount of money to invest in ABC.
Very inspiring
Love how she refused to be bottled up as a women but chose to be seen as equal as men when she said she doesn’t have an advise for only women but all genders.
She’s awesome
Great interview and such an inspiring story! What a powerful woman!
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Now this is a millionaire that is self-made! 👏👏👏👏
It's a strange question, to ask what advice would she give to women during this recession. I'm glad Diane saw that gender isn't important here and the question should have been opened up to be advice generally. What an impressive, classy person she is. As a millennial, I have so much respect for this generation and the way they conduct themselves. Younger generations have so much to learn from them.
Women don’t hire men so what can you gain from this?
Our public school in America is horrible throughout all the states we need better teachers, and parents. Also teach critical thinking in the classroom and have the students learn to think for themselves.
Wish I could interview her. We've got a lot of know how but it is so hard to know where to start to improve community strength!
Thanks for sharing, I learnt a lot of good lessons from this.
Impressive. I'm inspired!
Thank you
Thank you so much for sharing! Growing up on a dairy farm is certainly a humble beginning for such a successful woman. This is very inspiring
Hello, dear. How are you doing today?
great reporter
The most beautiful Lady
i love your channel
This is incredible. My husband and I have a roofing business
You make women proud 😎
Hurdles and Pains are the two key parameters that make the person tough in critical situations which have to be conquered in the right manner with the proper framework. Being Knowledgeable is good, getting responses, and feedback, from mentors, and coaches working in a Prestigious Institution is mind-blowing and culturally correct as well. It is just that our level of Confidence, mannerisms, and Body language really matter a lot. Each and every person's Brain is a Sensitive Device. It makes us aware of many things, It is just that what we sow we reap.
What an inspiration! 👏
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I am impressed she looks so good, love how she carries herself.
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Education is key! I'm so glad she's not only worried about making more money but actually trying to teach the younger generations how to get somewhere some place with a good education! Bravo 👏!
Real estate again, no wonder all real estate ppl, but looking at her body Language you can see she is rich
Thank you my new female BOSS idol ❤️
Government contracts as your entry game you say
I’m sure she’s a great leader in her industry but she actually married into money. Start-from-scratch is someone you created wealth from the BEGINNING.
You can tell that you didn't watch the video!
Did you watch the video?
She was married into money and worked hard. She was a playboy bunny yes but I dont think that made her a heavy weight real state investor.
I'm a construction bookkeeper at the moment about to take a class in construction estimating starting next week. I'm looking to move up in the construction industry and one day maybe I can be like Ms. Hendricks.
Hello, dear. How are you doing today?
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"If you quit you're done"
I think we also need more young people in education reform. It seems to be a work, work, work mindset and not a mental well-being one.
I love the part about Gender. It is very controversial however very important for success to move forward aggressively
I didn't agree with her about gender. It is a hindrance but I do think it's important to not use it as an obstacle.
Her success is well deserved...
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I like her
I love her take on gender, the recession is hard on everybody not just women. That's how you equalise the genders. Diane Hendricks is a woman of substance!
With her $5000 high heels on💯💯💯💯
Wow! She's 75?
Camera angle sucks
Love this interview... such an inspiration. Than you.
Her father was old school. He didn't want her becoming masculine. He didn't know that work doesn't impact feminity or masculinity.
She also said he never said “women belong in the house” and I found that interesting.
It's about time we saw a woman rise to wealth on her merits and not the man's. Not marrying into wealth. Make 😊 wealth.
Side note Diane, can we get a interview on how to keep wearing heels at 50 please? 😂
Are there no plastic surgeons who are able to say no?
danm she has insane money
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We need help more then ever these days ! We need Ken
The definition of self-made is extended on this one. Ken, her husband built the business. 🤷♀️
You sound dense.
the lady in red..
Props to her accomplishments but she is not a self-made wealthy individual. Her husband's father was a roofer and Ken Hendrick was wealthy in his own roofing company BEFORE they married. I don't think people realize how massive of an advantage having access to millions of dollars and specific industry connections are.
If you acknowledge unearned wealth & connections as self-made, you better have a good argument for it or you lose all credibility.
Sit. Down.
Let’s look to her for the definition of Self Made. Shall we?
I don’t think she mentioned that she was in commercial real estate when she started out in the the 70s. The industry was dominated by men and she did very well. An MBA is worthless compared to spending even a month working with Diane Hendricks.