121 Quotes by Kenneth Cole

Rest is overrated.

In business, you can write your own book. The more unique it is from anything written before, the more likely it is to succeed.

I often say in jest, 'We haven't changed the world but hopefully we've become an accessory.'

The stigma, the fact that nobody was talking about AIDS was arguably killing more people than the virus itself. So I did an ad about the fact that nobody was speaking about HIV/AIDS.

When I married Maria, her father was governor at the time, and I was in awe of his progressive message.

Today, I believe everybody's their own brand, and everybody has their own brand and they curate their own brand on their Facebook and Twitter pages.

If every shoe store in America stops selling shoes, no one's going to go barefoot for 15, 20 years. No one needs shoes, for the most part. We have shoes; our problem is what to do with them.

When I started this business, I never anticipated this would become a platform for me to talk about things that I personally believe in.

This is what I wanted the business to be when I started it: a lot of black, a lot of luxurious materials, and modern styling.