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Part of me is very entrepreneurial.
I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!
Ask questions; don't make assumptions.
Online, offline, it's gotta be the same.
Don't stop. Don't slow down. Keep focused.
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
We live by what we believe not but what we see.
Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.
Store windows are like landing pages on the website.
All I have are my instincts. They've never failed me.
I got my MBA at Burberry, but I will get my PhD at Apple.
I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.
I work through teams. It’s the only way I know how to work.
Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.
The purer our message, the more compelling it is to consumers.
There's seven billion people on the planet. It's not about you.
I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.
At Apple, we believe that people with passion can change the world.
At their core, an influencer creates an empowering human connection.
It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision.
We all control our careers. Those choices that you make are so critical.
I have learned to feel my way through life, personally and professionally.
Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.
Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.
My dad would always say, "When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?"
I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.
In luxury, ubiquity will kill you - it means you're not really luxury anymore.
Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.
We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.
Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.
It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.
For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!
The sign of a great leader is knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know.
It's no longer possible to think of the physical and digital as two different worlds.
I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.
If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years
I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.
I don't think malls are going to go away. People still need somewhere to go, but they do have to evolve.
We're building a lifelong relationship with people, and every great relationship has to be built on trust.
When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.
I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.
Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.
When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.
Whether it's countries or companies, it's about putting the best person in the job who can unite people and create value.
I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.
We always said if we were going to target a millennial consumer, then we had to do it in their mother tongue, which is digital.
I know it might sound weird, but empathy is one of the greatest creators of energy. It's counterintuitive because it's selfless.
You know, I think that anything you do at Apple... you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant.