“Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.”
“Keep an eye on the competition: … but this doesn’t mean copying them.”
“If you push yourself beyond the furthest place you think you can go, you’ll be able to achieve your heart’s dream.”
“If you don’t sell, it’s not the product that’s wrong, it’s you.”
“Projecting your mind into a successful situation is the most powerful means to achieve goals.”
“I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.”
“There is not such thing as bad times, I kept telling myself. There is not such thing as bad business. Business is there if you go after it.”
“I worked every day from nine, when I arrived to polish my jars, to six in the evening. I never lunched.”
“If you have a goal, if you want to be successful, if you really want to do it and become another Estée Lauder, you’ve got to work hard, you’ve got to stick to it and you’ve got to believe in what you’re doing.”
“When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.”
“Be strong. Be confident. Be the star of your own life.”
“Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.”
“Whatever you give comes back to you.”
“People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks and embracing every possibility.”
“When you’re angry, never put it in writing. It’s like carving anger in stone. That makes implacable enemies.”
“I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.”
“Most good ideas sparkle in simplicity, so much so that everyone wonders why no one ever did that before.”
“Our life isn’t how much we can take out, but how much we can put in.”
“Beauty is an attitude, there’s no secret.”
“I’ve always believed that success comes from not letting your eyes stray from that target. Anyone who wants to achieve a dream must stay strong, focused and steady.”
“Give credit where credit is due: simply said, if you want loyalty and best effort, you must be thoughtful.”
“Confidence breeds beauty.”
“My ambition was to make every woman beautiful, not to make money.”
“The most beautiful face in the world? It’s yours.”
“I believe that potential is unlimited – success depends on daring to act on dreams.”
“I am a visceral person by nature. I act on instinct, quickly, without pondering possible disaster and without indulging in deep introspection.”
And perhaps my favorite of all time: “Act tough: what other call tough, I call persistent.”
“First comes the shy wish. Then you must have the heart to have the dream. Then, you work, and work.”
“Trust your instincts: my first reaction is almost invariably the right one.”
“People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks, and embracing every possibility.”
“I was unstoppable, so great was my faith in what I sold.”
“Train the best sales force.”
“Learn to say no: … executives much learn to say no to inferior products and ideas; no to those who seem to be making a mistake.”
“Touch a face. Touch a hand. Say, ‘This is for you, this is what I want you to wear.’”
“If you put the product into the customer’s hands, it will speak for itself if it’s something of quality.”
“All great things begin with a vision … a dream.”
“Serenity is pleasant, but it lacks the ecstasy of achievement.”
“Act tough: what other call tough, I call persistent.”
“Hire the best people: you can be the direct of the company but you can’t be there to direct all the time.”
“Write things down: your mother probably told you this. She’s right.”
“It’s one thing becoming successful, but it’s hard to stay that way. Who helped me? I helped myself. I have done every job in the company.”
“Touch your customer, and you’re halfway there.”
“All great things begin with a vision….a dream.”
“There are no homely women, just lazy ones.”
“Whether you are the chairperson of the board or want to charm him, you need beauty and femininity as well as wisdom and strength.”
“I learned early that being a perfectionist and providing quality was the only way to do business.”
“Business is there if you go after it.”
“There are no homely women, only careless women. ”
“When a person with experience meets a person with money, pretty soon, the person with the experience will have the money and the person with the money will have the experience.”
“To sell a cream, you sold a dream in the early days.”
