Les Wexner Quotes

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• Everything has a lifecycle. You have to believe it’s going to change.
• Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.
• You’re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You’re going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your…
• I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the…
• Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?
• What makes you tick? Why do you care about the things you care about?
• If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don’t have any nose,
• If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.
• There is always hopefully a next.
• As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.
• Sometimes I wish I lived more in the day, but I'm happier thinking about tomorrow or the day after. The way I see it, there's…
• Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.
• Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
• I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I…
• In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.
• A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so…

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