Leonard Lauder Quotes

#1. Edie was a gorgeous, avant-garde girl back in the day when that could be a full-time occupation, but in marriage she slowly became less wild. To Manny's great disappointment, though, her domestic skills didn't rise to the fore as her sexual and artistic ones receded.

Meg Wolitzer

#2. I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

Leonard Lauder

#3. That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

Charles E. Wilson

#4. That level of trust was what being in command was truly about
being able to lead someone not only down an unknown path, but also a seemingly wrong path, if the need called for doing so.

Dave Galanter

#5. When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

Leonard Lauder

#6. The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

Nicholas Ray

#7. I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

Leonard Lauder

#8. I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.

Marilyn Manson

#9. I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

Leonard Lauder

#10. Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason.

Christine Kinealy

#11. Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.

Leonard Lauder

#12. What must it be like for a woman to live with power over men rivaled only by God for the first third of her life, build her identity over her looks, only to feel it slip away as time tumbles by? Feel the shift in how people treat her, as though getting old is a contagious affliction?

Tyler Knight

#13. A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.

Alexis Taylor

#14. I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

M.I.A.

#15. Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.

Leonard Lauder

#16. I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

Christa McAuliffe

#17. If I don't learn something every single day, it's a wasted day.

Leonard Lauder

#18. I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

Leonard Lauder

#19. 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.

Leonard Lauder

#20. I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

Leonard Lauder

#21. The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.

Ken Robinson

#22. When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. 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.

Leonard Lauder

#24. I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.

Leonard Lauder

#25. You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

Leonard Lauder

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

Leonard Lauder

#27. I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

Leonard Lauder

#28. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

Gloria Steinem

#29. 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.

Leonard Lauder

#30. My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run

Amanda Marshall

#31. Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.

Leonard Lauder

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

Leonard Lauder

#33. To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.

Leonard Lauder