Citas de Les Wexner

• If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose.

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  Noses, Grindstone, Ifs

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• My view is that everything begins with the customer. If you know the customer, then you can match the merchandise and then you can market it. The marketing is kind of the icing. The foundation is the cake. That's the merchandise. Then the question is, "Do the customers want cake, or do they want cupcakes or donuts. What is it?"

  Les Wexner

  Marketing, Kind, Donuts

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• Everything has a lifecycle. You have to believe it’s going to change.

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  Creer

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• You’re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You’re going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible.

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  Errores

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• My favorite leader is George Washington. Because he came from very modest circumstances. He wasn't the son of a plantation owner. He was the son of a farmer. He had no formal education, very frustrated. He started writing a diary when he was in his teens, and he wrote things like, "When I grow up, I want to be respected. When I grow up, I want to be successful. When I grow up, I want to know things." What I find fascinating about Washington is he wanted to make something of himself.

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  Growing Up, Writing, Son

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• I think I have terminal curiosity. So I always think that the future will be better and different than the past. As I look back and take inventory of myself, I'm very open-minded and flexible. People say the older you get, you get set in your ways. I don't think so.

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  Pasado, Pensamiento, Gente

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• If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

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  Shutting Down, Next, Painting

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• If your life lease, your existence was canceled tomorrow, what would you wish you had done? What are the things you would like to impact? Start on those and you can change the world. Maybe you can only make your neighborhood a little bit better, or make someone's life a little bit better. Isn't that the kind of purpose?

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  Wish, Purpose, Done

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• I don't think I've invented anything. Henry Ford didn't invent the car, and Steve Jobs didn't invent the cell phone, and he didn't invent the digital revolution, but he could adapt, put things together in creative ways. So I think in what we do there's a lot of "let's try it and sees," whether it's a new color or a new style. But we didn't invent cosmetics or lingerie. How we market them - style, color - those are the things that we do, but it isn't pure creation. It's putting together ideas. I truly believe there's nothing really new in the world.

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  Believe, Thinking, Car

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• The risk of failure is a very personal thing. One of the quotes I like, I think this came from the famous basketball coach from California - John Wooden - is that, "Successful people - winners - do everything necessary to prepare to win, without the certainty of winning." Everybody would do everything necessary to prepare to win if winning was a certainty. So you're willing to put yourself out publicly and privately and say, "I'm going to do this."

  Les Wexner

  Basketball, Successful, Winning

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• Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?

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  Decisions You Make, Crucible, Moments

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• I think success is about purpose. People ask about success at different points in your life. As I look back, I think people that are successful feel good about what they are doing, and they can look back at what they've done and they feel good about it. People sometimes ask about success and they say, "What's your legacy?" and I say, "I think it's really a dumb question." I think the question is: What am I doing now? Do I feel good about myself? Am I proud of myself? Whatever purpose there is in life, I think success is about purpose. It's not about material things.

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  Éxito, Pensamiento, Personas

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• One of the things I've probably absorbed when I was in business school - and didn't know I was learning it - was about life cycles, that things begin, and they peak, and then they decline. So whether you look at life cycles of fashion, or you look at life cycles of things that people buy, designs, everything is in a life cycle. Getting out of the apparel businesses and into beauty and lingerie, those were very big bets, but they were very deliberately thought about and tested over time.

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  Fashion, School, People

  "Victoria's Other Secret". Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. February 10, 2017.

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• I was very lucky to find a career which let me travel, sourcing stores in other countries, just the opportunities of the career in design and finance and all the things that make retailing - my career - interesting to me. That's why I started looking at community responsibility. I felt I should give of myself.

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  País, Responsabilidad, Oportunidad

  "Victoria's Other Secret". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 10, 2017.

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• Cuando entrenas y enseñas liderazgo, la mayoría de la gente piensa en ellos. Es como si tú fueras el líder y cómo influyes en ellos. Está claro que los líderes llevan a sus seguidores, su rebaño, su empresa, su negocio -lo que sea- ojalá a un lugar mejor. Pero creo que la base de los grandes líderes es que se guían a sí mismos, y son conscientes de conocerse a sí mismos y de entrenarse y guiarse a sí mismos de una manera muy profunda. Los más simples de nosotros hablamos con nosotros mismos. La pregunta es: "¿Realmente nos lideramos a nosotros mismos?"

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  Thinking, People, Profound

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• I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

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  Home, Thinking, Week

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• I think I'm determined. And I think if you're determined, you're right. Your behavior is exactly the same when you're stubborn, except then you're wrong. And so, there's times when I'm wrong, and I'd say, "Well, you were the dark side of determined." But I think determination, you know, it's like have an idea, think about the idea, the risks involved. What does it take to get from here to there? And then once you make the choice, you just keep going.

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  Determination, Dark, Thinking

  "Victoria's Other Secret". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 10, 2017.

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• I think what I've tried to do is make the world a better place. I think that's what's really important. Nobody remembers who sold the most togas in Rome. In terms of legacy, people remember the great villains more than they remember the great heroes. So I think how you feel about yourself is the most significant question. What do you say about yourself when you put your head on the pillow? Are you really proud of what you're doing and the way you're doing it? I think it's really a fundamental question.

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  Héroe, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Victoria's Other Secret". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 10, 2017.

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• A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.

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  Men, Thinking, Smell

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• My mom was terrific. I described my mom once. If fear was a color, she was color blind. Nothing frightened her. If I told her that I was going to take over General Motors, she'd say, "You can do it." Just the most preposterous things, ambitious things, she said, "You can do it."

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  Mom, Ambitious, Blind

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• You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different than the present, and the present is past, as we say it. I think I, by nature, am an optimist. Maybe I was driven to escape from my childhood and to be something, create my own world or career the way I wanted it to be. And I keep doing that in very interesting ways.

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  Past, Thinking, Interesting

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• "What would people say about you when you're gone?" That to me was a very important question. I thought about that for a couple of years and said, "What people say about you when you're gone doesn't matter. You're gone." What really matters is, "What do you say about yourself in the here and now? Are you proud of what you're doing?" If you had a short lease and it ended today, or it ends tomorrow, what would you wish you would have done? You better do it.

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  Couple, People, Wish

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• Everybody has to solve that "meaning of life" and purpose question for themselves. Everybody does it their own way. I think you have to be thoughtful about the way that you're doing it. So I describe it as purpose. If you can think about leading a purposeful life - not just an accumulation but you actually make the world a better place - then I think in the grand scheme of the universe, that that explains our existence. If not, we're just passing through. We're grains of sand and we're blowing in the breeze.

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  Thoughtful, Thinking, Meaning Of Life

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• The notion of Victoria should be a ladies' paradise. If men like Victoria's Secret, that's kind of a bonus, but in my imagination they should feel uncomfortable when they're in the store, if there's no mahogany paneling, there's nothing that's welcoming. This is a ladies' paradise. And that thinking goes into the design of the store, the fitting rooms, the fabric, the display. It's all from the lady's point of view. It has nothing to do with men.

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  Men, Thinking, Imagination

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• Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

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  Rome, Togas, Remember

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