Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Jennifer Hyman - Page 2

I think sales is the most important skill set young people can learn. Understanding how to pitch an idea with confidence and secure a client are valuable skills that apply to every single aspect of business.

We are helping women express themselves and feel awesome about themselves, and I think that does change the course of your day.

When we launched, we had to figure out every problem - big or small - on our own.

Real-time feedback and coaching promotes learning. When feedback is connected to compensation, feedback is muted, distorted, and given less frequently.

Clothing enables people to self-express, and that's why variety, when it comes to our wardrobe, has become more and more important over time.

As opposed to thinking about ourselves as disrupting the fashion industry, we're thinking about ourselves more broadly - about disrupting the closet and how you get dressed.

Industries that are chaotic are ripe for innovation. They are open to anyone who has an idea.

I'm constantly running to meetings outside of the office, and I think that you can't go wrong with a great pair of Lanvin pumps.

I'm a very social person, and I like being in different kinds of environments.

All early entrepreneurs fall prey to the same problem, which is everyone believes that if you are super intense in the beginning, work long hours, that you can create something quickly and that entrepreneurship is almost something that happens overnight.

In early 2011, I had the opportunity to meet and spend significant time with Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital and co-founder of Zappos.

I'm a magazine junkie. I have 30 different subscriptions to various magazines, and I like old-school, real magazines.

We derive confidence as women from what we wear.

I have the most eclectic music taste out there. I can be listening to an indie pop song just as easily as I could be listening to a Carly Simon song from the '70s to a country song.

We've found that employees who live full, happy lives tend to be the most effective contributors.

In order to really believe in an idea being revolutionary, you have to truly understand how it's going to revolutionize life.

I can dance to Beyonce, sing karaoke, create strategy, go on dates, and build a multi-billion company and show the world that women can build big businesses.

Think about all of the non-entrepreneurial advice and resources you need when building a company. You need lawyers, accountants, financial experts.

I've always felt the connection between clothing and confidence, which is why I probably was such a shopaholic.

Almost every one of us interacts with the experience or sharing economy every day, and I'm proud that Rent the Runway has helped to popularize and normalize this behavior.

My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.

I studied social studies at Harvard, which makes it sound like I was in seventh grade. It was a choose-your-own-adventure major, where you could decide what you were going to focus on.

I'm obsessed with 'New York' magazine.

Because entrepreneurship is so hard and does take so long to build something great, you do have to build an environment that you yourself as an entrepreneur want to work in for the next 20 years.

We're giving our customer access to things she wouldn't have otherwise purchased, either because it wasn't smart to buy it, or she couldn't afford it.

I dream of a not-so-distant future in which every woman can wake up, decide what she'll wear from the millions of styles in her digital dream closet, and have her outfit magically delivered to her before she finishes her coffee.

I've been humbled by the amount of people who have gone out of their way to reach out, mentor me on an ongoing basis, and devote time to help solve the problems Rent the Runway faces as a company - simply out of their own interest and kindness.

One of Rent the Runway's core values is 'Trust in Everyone's Best of Intentions.' We trust our team.

I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.

While it can be challenging for women with disruptive, technology-based ideas to acquire significant funding, in my experience, once I was able to raise that funding, I was met with droves of people offering to help me fulfill my dreams.

You need to fail quickly and learn from those failures to continue to build along the way.

If you're passionate about something, go for it, because people are great at what they love and when they're the happiest.

I didn't wake up one day and want to become an entrepreneur. I had the idea for Rent the Runway and thought it would be fun to work on and also thought if it was successful, it would make women feel great about themselves.

Every single day, entrepreneurship has highs and lows, and you need to feel like you have a community around you. That is insanely important - to have a community of people around you lifting you up and who really know you.

As leaders, we've all seen the painful effects of team members not keeping pace with company growth - it's called up-leveling, and it's all too common when a company goes from zero to something to hopefully an IPO.

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

When I traveled around the country visiting women in their own homes and talking to them about their closets, every woman lamented about 'settling' for many of the pieces in her closet.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

If I am looking to impress people, I'll be in a Rent the Runway dress and great accessories.

I think it's extremely important to think of your company as a series of chapters.