Angela Ahrendts famous quotes

05-24-2025

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

#Thinking #Firsts #Building
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 #Generations #World
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
We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#World #Missions #Wanted
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. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Mom #Wife #Wish
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
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
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

#Age #Doe #World
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
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.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Home #Weekend #People
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
Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Luxury #Forget #Evolve
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Ceo
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
Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Self Confidence #Self #Weakness
I work through teams. Itâ€™s the only way I know how to work.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Team #Way
My dad would always say, 'When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?'
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Dad #Looks #Lasts
When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered â€” people are free.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#People #Empowered #Company
We live by what we believe not but what we see.
-- Angela Ahrendts

#Inspirational #Graduation #Believe

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