Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Jennifer Hyman

I'm an auditory learner, and if you put something into a song, I'll remember it forever.

I've always loved artists - creative, spontaneous, laid-back people - but I wasn't meeting these types in real life. So I figured that, given I run a technology company, I should also trust technology to help me find the love of my life.

I want to have an 'Eat, Pray, Love' experience where I drop off the face of the planet and move to Greece.

I'm bad at hiding my emotions.

The first core value we have is that everyone deserves a Cinderella experience. And I have experienced a Cinderella experience. And I really believe that most people who've come to Rent the Runway have had a Cinderella experience.

I can grow as a leader only if I'm willing to accept feedback.

It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture.

Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team.

What's interesting about the transportation market is that you're often dabbling in multiple categories. The same person who might own a car is still using Uber, is still using a taxi, still might go to Avis on a business trip and rent a car.

Around the year 2000, businesses around the country went 'business casual.'

I think about people like Jeff Bezos or Reed Hastings, and I really marvel at the stamina they've had to keep on trucking no matter what happens.

If your work isn't mission-driven or emotionally resonant to you, it will be very hard to maintain passion and focus over a long period of time, which is critical in entrepreneurship.

I dream of democratizing the fashion industry by giving everyone access to feeling their most beautiful and powerful every day and, at the same time, using technology to modernize how we get dressed.

People should think about their closets like they think about a stock portfolio. There are things you want to invest in; you make those investments, and those are your blue chips. So you should invest in a great pair of jeans, in a great cashmere sweater.

Even though she's my younger sister, Becky's definitely a role model in my life. She's the most genuinely positive person I've ever met.

Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.

Fashion should be a daily convenience, not a daily chore.

We're in the '100 percent return' business. This is driving millions of new customers into brands; most of our customers are wearing brands they've never tried before.

Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.

The most important thing to Ben and me was starting a family, so as soon as we got engaged, we booked Gurney's in Montauk - which is just a few miles down the beach from our summer home - as our wedding venue a full year and a half out, and then we immediately started trying to get pregnant.

My contribution to Rent the Runway as the CEO is higher than the contribution of someone on my warehouse team, but my pregnancy is not any more important than the pregnancy of any single person who works at my company.

I kick off every monthly team meeting with 'core value stories' - team members stand up and recognize how another team member exemplified a core value.

In the early years of Rent the Runway, our challenge was twofold: getting investors to buy into our vision for how the world was changing and getting women to understand that renting was a viable - let alone a smarter - alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on dresses they would wear just once.

Be brave and take accountability for your thoughts and beliefs.

When choosing vendors for my wedding, I intentionally searched for women who were at the beginning of their own founder journeys.

The more time goes by, the more things will happen to you in your life. And the ability to be positive throughout and look for the good in people, look for the good in situations - it's so important.

Our company wouldn't exist and wouldn't be around without our warehouse employees and our call center employees. And these employees - not just at Rent the Runway but at tens of thousands of other companies throughout the country - are treated unequally.

We learn about MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Take that same speech and put it in the voice of a woman. Would it be as inspirational? Would it have as much gravitas to it?

If you spend your time away from work looking at emails and making sure your inbox went down to zero, that's not an effective way to spend your time as a CEO or an entrepreneur. Often times, those emails aren't that important.

The way I inspire loyalty in my team is for them to see me more casually, to have lunch with members of my team, for them to see me with my family, my fiance, to see the real me.

Mentors don't just have to be people who are older or more experienced than you are. Mentors are people who really care about you, know you, and want to offer feedback and advice to help you grow.

As a female founder and CEO, it is important to me to support other women as they build their businesses.

I sleep around 8 hours, but I tend to wake up several times a night with constant dreams, thoughts, and ideas related to Rent the Runway.

I think a lot of people might've and probably did have the idea of renting clothes before me. I was the only one who was crazy enough to attempt it.

When you don't have to buy something, it allows you to try new things.

I want to put H&M and Zara out of business.

I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

I was sexually harassed while building Rent the Runway - propositioned, sent sexual text messages, harassed and threatened in person.

Our goal is to teach young women who were brought up on H&M and Forever 21 that designer clothes are expensive for a reason. They're works of art.

There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.

Every single person around the world has this storage facility in their bedroom, and we call it a closet, and 80 percent of the stuff in that storage facility is worn three times or less in its lifetime.

Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get right as the CEO.

People feel extremely comfortable with me personally.

When I feel like the day is great? Pasta. When I feel like I want the day to be great? Pasta. It's just awesome.

I think layering is key for fall along with a really colorful scarf to bring spiciness to the outfit.

I'm totally obsessed with Italian food and Mexican food.

As a little kid, I would watch Oprah almost every day.

When you buy something for $9.99, and you know that it'll fall apart after you wear it once... you're going into the shopping experience knowing that you're renting. So all I'm doing is making the rental process more efficient.

At Rent the Runway, we rent designer clothes. We have a belief set that half of the closet over time is going to move into the cloud, and a portion of what we wear every single day will be comprised of things that we don't own forever.

As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.

All that Rent the Runway has really done is we've opened up the technology and logistics to make it possible to have the customer decide how long she needs an article of clothing for.

In many cases, women are being harassed by people who are on their board or who are associated with one of their venture capitalists.

In the morning at home, I'm not functioning as an entrepreneur - I completely limit technology and any work-think - I'm functioning as a mom and a wife.

I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.

I have no desire to sell Rent the Runway. I have a 50-year vision for Rent the Runway, at least, to change consumer behavior and actually put the closet in the cloud.

I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.

I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like travel over owning things.

I actually think that self-expression comes, sometimes, from what you wear, and having the freedom to be able to wear whatever you want for whatever mood you want to wear it, but to not feel frivolous that all of those things that help you self-express have to be things that you're committing to forever.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.

I try to work with people the way they prefer.