Angela Ahrendts Quotes
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I have learned to feel my way through life, personally and professionally.
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I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.
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I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.
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Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.
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There's seven billion people on the planet. It's not about you.
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The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.
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We're building a lifelong relationship with people, and every great relationship has to be built on trust.
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In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
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I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.
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I don't believe that you are ever done. Is life ever going to stop and stand still? We have to move as fast as the world is moving.
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It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision.
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An influencer, to me, is someone who shares their journey - the ups and downs - and their approach to their craft or the spark that ignites a new interest allowing people to do more and go further.
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Great design... you won't have a business today without great design.
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I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.
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We cherish right and we cherish left, but more important, we cherish when you are able to use the whole mind that you were born with.
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Store windows are like landing pages on the website.
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Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.
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My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it reminds me of my father. It's a heartwarming thing.
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I don't believe that if you are going to build a long-term, sustainable brand that you can chop up every component part and expect everyone to have a perfect P&L.
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I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!
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Burberry was about building a relationship. But it was always about selling an amazing product that you would have forever. Apple is just a deeper relationship with a much broader constituency. Because it's everybody.
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Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.
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Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.
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Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.