Leonard Lauder

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.

If I don't learn something every single day, it's a wasted day.

I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

You can't separate a house from a family. It's a living, breathing home.

I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.

To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.

Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.