We have got the best collection of Estée Lauder quotes, sayings, captions, (with images and pictures) to inspire you about aesthetics, beauty, hard work and success.
Estée Lauder (Josephine Esther Mentzer) 1908 -2004 was an American businesswoman. She co-founded her eponymous cosmetics company with her husband, Joseph Lauter.
Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine’s 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century.
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Estée Lauder, the founder of the company that bears her name, was a visionary and a role model. The company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, fragrance, perfumes, makeup and hair care products .
Lauder was a challenger who proved that anything was possible — if you dared to dream it and had the guts and gumption to go for it.
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Estee Lauder Quotes
- “I worked for it.”
- “Trust your instincts.”
- “Confidence breeds beauty.”
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- “Glow is the essence of beauty.”
- “I went into business by accident.”
- “Business is there if you go after it.”
- “If you can’t smell it, you can’t sell it.”
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- “Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.”
- “Whatever you give comes back to you.”
- “Beauty is an attitude, there’s no secret.”
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- “Risk taking is the cornerstone of empires.”
- “There are no homely women, just lazy ones.”
- “All great things begin with a vision….a dream.”
Estee Lauder Quotes Success
- “The most beautiful face in the world? It’s yours.”
- “Touch your customer, and you’re halfway there.”
- “Act tough: what other call tough, I call persistent.”
- “There are no homely women, only careless women.”
- “Be strong. Be confident. Be the star of your own life.”
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- “I was unstoppable, so great was my faith in what I sold.”
- “If you don’t sell, it’s not the product that’s wrong, it’s you.”
- “Serenity is pleasant, but it lacks the ecstasy of achievement.”
- “Write things down: your mother probably told you this. She’s right.”
- “Our life isn’t how much we can take out, but how much we can put in.”
- “My ambition was to make every woman beautiful, not to make money.”
- “Keep an eye on the competition… but this doesn’t mean copying them.”
- “I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.”
- “Trust your instincts: my first reaction is almost invariably the right one.”
- “Your face should look as if you cared, and your best friend is your mirror.”
- “I didn’t get where I am by thinking about it or dreaming it. I got there by doing it.”
- “I wanted to see my name in lights, but I was willing to settle for my name on a jar.”
- “I believe that potential is unlimited – success depends on daring to act on dreams.”
- “Projecting your mind into a successful situation is the most powerful means to achieve goals.”
- “People are not often naturally perfect and that’s why God made stockings, shoes and cosmetics.”
- “I learned early that being a perfectionist and providing quality was the only way to do business.”
- “If you put the product into the customer’s hands, it will speak for itself if it’s something of quality.”
- “I worked every day from nine, when I arrived to polish my jars, to six in the evening. I never lunched.”
- “First comes the shy wish. Then you must have the heart to have the dream. Then, you work, and work.”
- “Give credit where credit is due: simply said, if you want loyalty and best effort, you must be thoughtful.”
- “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.”
- “My mother always said any woman is beautiful as long as she thinks she is – and she was very beautiful.”
- “Most good ideas sparkle in simplicity, so much so that everyone wonders why no one ever did that before.”
- “People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks, and embracing every possibility.”
- “When you’re angry, never put it in writing. It’s like carving anger in stone. That makes implacable enemies.”
- “When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.”
- “If you push yourself beyond the furthest place you think you can go, you’ll be able to achieve your heart’s dream.”
- “Accountants and lawyers make great accountants and lawyers. We need them, but we make the business decisions.”
- “Learn to say no…executives must learn to say no to inferior products and ideas; no to those who seem to be making a mistake.”
- “[On introducing her products into England] If I could start with the finest store in London, all the other great stores would follow.”
- “I am what you would call a stern taskmaster. I expect perfection. And then a little more perfection when perfection is offered.”
- “There is not such thing as bad times, I kept telling myself. There is not such thing as bad business. Business is there if you go after it.”
- “Whether you are the chairperson of the board or want to charm him, you need beauty and femininity as well as wisdom and strength.”
- “I’d risk the rent, but if it worked, I would start the business I always dreamed about. Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.”
- “It’s one thing becoming successful, but it’s hard to stay that way. Who helped me? I helped myself. I have done every job in the company.”
- “I am a visceral person by nature. I act on instinct, quickly, without pondering possible disaster and without indulging in deep introspection.”
- “I’ve always believed that success comes from not letting your eyes stray from that target. Anyone who wants to achieve a dream must stay strong, focused and steady.”
- “[On working a small department store run by two savvy women merchants] The ladies in their furs came to buy, and bought more when I waited on them. I knew it. I felt it.”
- “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.”
- “[On her parents and her wanting to be 100 percent American] I loved them both so much – their beauty and their character, but I didn’t love feeling different because of their old country ways.”
- “In every life there is a moment – an event or a realization – that changes that life irrevocably. If the change is to be a happy one, one must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay.”
- “If you have a goal, if you want to be successful, if you really want to do it and become another Estée Lauder, you’ve got to work hard, you’ve got to stick to it and you’ve got to believe in what you’re doing.”
- “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 believed in my product. I loved my product. I loved to touch the creams, smell them, look at them, carry them with me. A person has to love her harvest if she’s to expect others to love it. And beauty was such a bountiful harvest.”
- “From where you sit, you can probably reach out with comparative ease and touch a life of serenity and peace. You can wait for things to happen and not get too sad when they don’t. That’s fine for some but not for me. Serenity is pleasant, but it lacks the ecstasy of achievement.”
- “If in your mind’s eye you see a successful venture, a deal made, a profit accomplished, it has a superb chance of actually happening. Projecting your mind into a successful situation is the most powerful means to achieve goals. If you spent time with pictures of failure in your mind, you will orchestrate failure.”
- “I’ve tried not to sacrifice things for success. I never did anything that could hurt my children. I was always there for breakfast and dinner with them, and when I could I made it myself – and I didn’t believe in any of that frozen food stuff. I was home when they got back from school, and when my husband got in I was always waiting.”
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