Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Hattie Carnegie

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian businesswoman Hattie Carnegie.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Hattie Carnegie

Hattie Carnegie was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1950s. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, as Henrietta Kanengeiser. By her early 20s, she had taken the surname Carnegie as an homage to Andrew Carnegie, the richest person in the United States at the time.

To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work.
My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times. — © Hattie Carnegie
My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.
Taste is so much more important than fashion.
We have the loveliest women in the world in this county and wherever there are beautiful women there will be beautiful clothes. To show the American woman herself off to best advantage-that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
I don't think, I will ever actually climb to the top of the ladder, as I am always adding more rungs.
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