26 Quotes by Leonard Lauder

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

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

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

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.

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company,

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.

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

I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.