Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.

To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.

I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.

Life's too short not to enjoy what you're working on.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

I want technology to work for me, and my readers. People get confused that technology comes first. The ideas come first. You need to use the medium.

Nobody wants to be the same as anybody else.

I firmly believe that Harper's Bazaar is the star. I am there to make it the best it possibly can be, but there should be no confusion. I want to put Harper's Bazaar front and center.

It's just as important to let go and let somebody do what they're best at and other times, I'm very determined to get exactly what I know we need. It's that balance.

One of the greatest gifts of life is having a chance to live as long as there are people on earth.

You can’t manage time. You can only manage your life. You can’t strategically plan time, you can only plan your life.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.