Angela Ahrendts Quotes

• 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.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Knowing, Feelings, Intuition

  "Angela Ahrendts Reveals The Secret To Burberry’s Success" by Sarah Karmali, www.vogue.co.uk. August 5, 2013.

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• Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Thinking, Firsts, Building

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• I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Growing Up, Speak English, Generations

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• The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Want, Stores, Walks

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• When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

  Angela Ahrendts

  People, Empowered, Company

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• I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Jobs, Vision, Quota

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• If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

  Angela Ahrendts

  Years, Building, Social

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• Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Self Confidence, Self, Weakness

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• We live by what we believe not but what we see.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Inspirational, Graduation, Believe

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• I think if I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of always being incredibly focused on the task at hand. So wherever I've worked, I've just always tried to do my best, achieve my best, build a great team around me.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Team, Thinking, Hands

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• I work through teams. It’s the only way I know how to work.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Team, Way, Dexter Morgan

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• The experience would be that a customer would have total access to Burberry across any device, anywhere, and they would get exactly the same feeling of the brand, feeling of the culture, regardless of where, when, how they were accessing the brand.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Feelings, Would Be, Culture

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• I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Wife, Want, Chief Executives

  "Why women over 50 should be listened to....in all walks of life" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. September 11, 2013.

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• I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

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  Home, Weekend, People

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• We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.

  Angela Ahrendts

  World, Missions, Wanted

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• Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Luxury, Forget, Evolve

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• My dad would always say, "When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?"

  Angela Ahrendts

  Dad, Looks, Lasts

  Angela Ahrendts' Commencement Address at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, cms.bsu.edu. May 8, 2010.

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• I got my MBA at Burberry, but I will get my PhD at Apple.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Apples, Mba, Phds

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• I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Mom, Wife, Balance

  "Angela Ahrendts: The Burberry CEO who reinvented a heritage brand for the digital age" by Sheena McKenzie, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2013.

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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.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Should Have, Age, Doe

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• You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people's shoes.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Strong, Children, Shoes

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• We have always said actually this isn't about money, it's not about price. This can be an experience. It doesn't have to be about buying something.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Buying Something, Buying, Said

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• For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!

  Angela Ahrendts

  Today, Social, Ceo

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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.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Children, Class, People

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• I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

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  Ceo

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