Natalie Massenet Quotes
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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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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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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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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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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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Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
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I'm an accidental entrepreneur.
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The fashion cycle is outdated.
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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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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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If you want success, be unique.
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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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I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
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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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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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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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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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The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.
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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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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.