Mickey Drexler Quotes

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

You know what ends up on the markdown racks? All the weird colors. Guys don't wear orange or citron.

When you say something, and a thousand people are hearing it, you hope you leave an impression.

Celebrities have nothing to do with style.

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly helpful.

Fashion is guaranteed to never always be right.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

What is fashion? I don't know.

We have secured names and trademarks with either loose ideas or intentions, or with our imaginations. Sometimes things come of it, or they don't.

I've yet to see a correlation in my industry between great social media and great numbers.

I like someone who's focused and can tell me what they've done well and not well and who's very open, honest, and self-aware.

Service drives a lot of my decisions.

If you get a pant that fits the woman, as all women know, you get a loyal customer for life.

Do it, do it right, pay close attention to the product, and over time, you will win.

It is our job as always to focus on what we can control in the business.

I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's.

Customers don't just want to shop: they want to feel that the brand understands them.

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.

I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.'

I loved the fact that if you put goods on the floor, you could watch them sell.

I would like Madewell jeans to be the Levi's of its generation.

My office has no walls. You can't be removed from your team to be successful. You have to be respectful of others.

I didn't like the name 'personal shopper.' That makes it sound like too much of a commodity and not personal enough.

I never wanted to compete on price in my history because on price, you don't always win.

I couldn't stand not controlling my own product from how it's manufactured to how it's sold.

My personal opinion about the world is that it's homogenized.

The No. 1 thing is the product. The goods have to be good, but I care about how you feel about it.

Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.

Don't be buying out of emotion. Buy less if you love something but feel it's a risky item. We don't want overstock. And remember: No profit, no fun!

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

You can't separate the clothes from the stores, from the environment.

I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

I hire a lot of waiters, waitresses. Someone who's successful has a background that's not predictable.

I look at companies as price-players or quality-players. The only way to go with J.Crew was quality.

My management style is there is no such thing as non-important people in the company.

If you think you know the consumer better than anyone, then you're in real trouble. So we take a close watch. You spend time in stores.

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.