I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.
From Leonard Lauder
I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.
No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.
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.
If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.
I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.
The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.
One person really can make a difference.
You can't separate a house from a family. It's a living, breathing home.
I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.
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