Jennifer Hyman Quotes
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Fashion should be a daily convenience, not a daily chore.
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When you don't have to buy something, it allows you to try new things.
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Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team.
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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.
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We are helping women express themselves and feel awesome about themselves, and I think that does change the course of your day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.
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I'm a magazine junkie. I have 30 different subscriptions to various magazines, and I like old-school, real magazines.
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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.
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We derive confidence as women from what we wear.
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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.
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I think it's extremely important to think of your company as a series of chapters.
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As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.
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I'm bad at hiding my emotions.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Around the year 2000, businesses around the country went 'business casual.'
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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.
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I'm a very social person, and I like being in different kinds of environments.