Natalie Massenet Quotes
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As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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I'm an accidental entrepreneur.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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If you want success, be unique.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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The fashion cycle is outdated.
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When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.
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If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.
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Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?
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I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
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My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
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I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
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The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
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When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.