Estee Lauder

People are not often naturally perfect and that's why God made stockings, shoes and cosmetics.

I wanted to see my name in lights, but I was willing to settle for my name on a jar.

When a person with experience meets a person with money, pretty soon, the person with the experience will have the money and the person with the money will have the experience.

If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you.

I have never worked a day in my life without selling.

I am a visceral person by nature. I act on instinct, quickly, without pondering possible disaster and without indulging in deep introspection.

There is not such thing as bad times, I kept telling myself. There is not such thing as bad business.

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors' successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.

I didn't get my success by an overnight success, but through countless failures, hard work, and persistence.

If you push yourself beyond the furthest place you think you can go, you'll be able to achieve your heart's dream.

First comes the shy wish. Then you must have the heart to have the dream. Then, you work. And work.

There are no ugly women – only women who don't care or don't believe they're attractive.

I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

Every woman can be beautiful.

I was a woman with a mission and I had to work twice as hard as any man.

The most beautiful face in the world? It's yours. It's the one you have.

You can take all the credit in the world, but it's the customer who gives it to you.

I always said that one of my greatest assets was that I was a woman, because I could understand what a woman wanted.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Beauty is an attitude. There's no secret.