Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Angela Ahrendts
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businesswoman Angela Ahrendts.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.
From the store windows, the store touch-points, the website, social media, or a magazine, it has to be one pure customer experience, not just to gain market share but to gain mind share.
At their core, an influencer creates an empowering human connection.
Ninety-five percent of the time, I put myself in somebody else's position - that's how I live.
Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.
The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.
We always said if we were going to target a millennial consumer, then we had to do it in their mother tongue, which is digital.
I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.
You know, I think that anything you do at Apple... you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant.
I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.
Think of energy almost like emotional electricity. It has a powerful way of uniting ordinary people, their connected spirit, to do extraordinary things.
Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.
I've never gone to the Oscars because I can't afford another week away. It is not more important than my husband. It is not more important than my kids.
There's seven billion people on the planet. It's not about you.
Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.
The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.
You're going to see relationships with technology across anything that's brand. I don't care if that's in home or what you wear. I just think it's a new fact of life.
Whether it's countries or companies, it's about putting the best person in the job who can unite people and create value.
The main objective - our soul is our people. And our job is to enrich their lives, change the world. And so I think that's the bigger pressure you put on yourself.
Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.
Great design... you won't have a business today without great design.
The sign of a great leader is knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know.
Ask questions; don't make assumptions.
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.
Computers and smart devices are among the greatest intellectual gifts ever created for man but, if not balanced with human contact, may offer little to develop one's heart.
Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.
Just put the best person into the job.
What we have wanted to do is build an amazing brand experience and an amazing way that people can engage with the brand.
Don't stop. Don't slow down. Keep focused.
I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.
I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
You have to create a consistent brand experience however and wherever a customer touches your brand, online or offline. The lines are forever blurred.
It's not unusual for a luxury company to be born from a single product and then diversify. Louis Vuitton began with luggage, and Gucci with leather goods.
All I have are my instincts. They've never failed me.
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
'Balance' is a really big word for me.
Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emotive, compelling stories - and even more so because we're nonfiction.
In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
I don't think malls are going to go away. People still need somewhere to go, but they do have to evolve.
You have to do what's best for the brand.
We cherish right and we cherish left, but more important, we cherish when you are able to use the whole mind that you were born with.
I know it might sound weird, but empathy is one of the greatest creators of energy. It's counterintuitive because it's selfless.
Unless I can come in in the morning and smile, walk in the lobby and say, 'Good morning!' - if I am stressed - I am not going to do a good job. Everybody is watching us. They are feeding off of our energy.
I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people's lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company's continued success and leadership in changing the world.
I think if I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of always being incredibly focused on the task at hand. So wherever I've worked, I've just always tried to do my best, achieve my best, build a great team around me.
I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.
We're building a lifelong relationship with people, and every great relationship has to be built on trust.
The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.
Trust your instincts and emotions.
You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people's shoes.
I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.
People don't want to just make stuff. They want to make stuff with purpose.
At some point in your career, maybe you, too, have made the life-altering decision to start anew. If so, you know first-hand how exciting, challenging, and sometimes disorienting the first 30, 60, 90 days can be.
Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.
People love to talk about themselves.
Store windows are like landing pages on the website.
I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can replace looking someone in the eyes, touching their hand, you know?
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