Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Angela Ahrendts - Page 2

In luxury, ubiquity will kill you - it means you're not really luxury anymore.

Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.

I don't believe that if you are going to build a long-term, sustainable brand that you can chop up every component part and expect everyone to have a perfect P&L.

Burberry was about building a relationship. But it was always about selling an amazing product that you would have forever. Apple is just a deeper relationship with a much broader constituency. Because it's everybody.

In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.

If you can't control everything, you can't control anything, not really.

I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!

I don't believe that you are ever done. Is life ever going to stop and stand still? We have to move as fast as the world is moving.

It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision.

If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.

To any CEO who's skeptical at all, you have to create a social enterprise today; you have to be totally connected with everyone who touches your brand.

I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.

At Apple, we believe that people with passion can change the world.

I know who I am. I know what I love.

My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it reminds me of my father. It's a heartwarming thing.

The luxury customer is increasingly global and increasingly mobile. Their brand journey is not linear. They might browse online and purchase in store, or vice versa.

It's no longer possible to think of the physical and digital as two different worlds.

I have learned to feel my way through life, personally and professionally.

The purer our message, the more compelling it is to consumers.

People talk about the age and positioning of a brand, but hell, it's not about that. The global language is digital, and we need to speak the language.

I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

Online, offline, it's gotta be the same.

Part of me is very entrepreneurial.

We value feeling over knowing, because you can't prove something that hasn't been done before.

An influencer, to me, is someone who shares their journey - the ups and downs - and their approach to their craft or the spark that ignites a new interest allowing people to do more and go further.

When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.

We all control our careers. Those choices that you make are so critical.

I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

The experience would be that a customer would have total access to Burberry across any device, anywhere, and they would get exactly the same feeling of the brand, feeling of the culture, regardless of where, when, how they were accessing the brand.

For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

I work through teams. It’s the only way I know how to work.

I got my MBA at Burberry, but I will get my PhD at Apple.

We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.

When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

We live by what we believe not but what we see.

My dad would always say, "When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?"

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

We have always said actually this isn't about money, it's not about price. This can be an experience. It doesn't have to be about buying something.