Les Wexner famous quotes

03-26-2025

If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you donâ€™t have any nose,
-- Les Wexner

#Noses #Grindstone
Everything has a lifecycle. You have to believe itâ€™s going to change.
-- Les Wexner

#Believe
In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.
-- Les Wexner

#America #Important #Quality
I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.
-- Les Wexner

#Home #Thinking #Week
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
-- Les Wexner

#Growing Up #Parent #Shopkeepers
Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.
-- Les Wexner

#Entrepreneur #Guy #Painful
Sometimes I wish I lived more in the day, but I'm happier thinking about tomorrow or the day after. The way I see it, there's always a new or next thing.
-- Les Wexner

#Thinking #Wish #Way
As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.
-- Les Wexner

#Work Out #Entrepreneur #Solutions
There is always hopefully a next.
-- Les Wexner

#Next #Hopefully
If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.
-- Les Wexner

#Shutting Down #Next #Painting
What makes you tick? Why do you care about the things you care about?
-- Les Wexner

#Care #Tick #Do You Care
Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?
-- Les Wexner

#Decision #Crucible #Moments
I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.
-- Les Wexner

#Team #Mirrors #People
Youâ€™re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. Youâ€™re going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible.
-- Les Wexner

#Errors
Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.
-- Les Wexner

#Rome #Togas #Remember
A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.
-- Les Wexner

#Men #Thinking #Smell

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