Leonard Lauder Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“One person really can make a difference.”

“My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.”

“I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.”

“If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.”

“I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.”

“I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.”

“No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.”

“Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.”

“You can't separate a house from a family. It's a living, breathing home.”

“The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.”