26 Quotes by Leonard Lauder

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.

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.

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

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.

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

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.

I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.