A biography for Angela Ahrendtshasn’t been written yet.
“There's seven billion people on the planet. It's not about you.”
“I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.”
“It's not unusual for a luxury company to be born from a single product and then diversify. Louis Vuitton began with luggage, and Gucci with leather goods.”
“Don't stop. Don't slow down. Keep focused.”
“I've never gone to the Oscars because I can't afford another week away. It is not more important than my husband. It is not more important than my kids.”
“I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can replace looking someone in the eyes, touching their hand, you know?”
“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.”
“Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.”
“In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.”
“Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.”
“Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.”
“I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.”
“I have learned to feel my way through life, personally and professionally.”
“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.”
“To any CEO who's skeptical at all, you have to create a social enterprise today; you have to be totally connected with everyone who touches your brand.”
“I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.”
“Burberry was about building a relationship. But it was always about selling an amazing product that you would have forever. Apple is just a deeper relationship with a much broader constituency. Because it's everybody.”
“I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.”
“I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.”