"Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life...."
"Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace."
"When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society."
"I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company."
"My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had little bracelets attached to the caps-meaning your lip balm could idly dangle from your wrist like a charm bracelet when not in use, not unlike some iPhone accessories."
"The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets."
"I'm such a fanatic about exercise that I opened my own gym, 3Sixty Cycling Studio, and I exercise almost every single day."
"M&A is always an opportunistic tool to grow a company."
"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
"I grew up with a single pair of shoes until I grew into the next size. My parents believed in the American dream and the power of education but didn't have the money to send me to college. I realized early on that I needed to go against the flow and be better than everyone else to support my family."
"My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?"
"The mission of Booking is to empower people to experience the world. Whatever people want to do, wherever they want to go, they can book it with us."
"Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem."
"I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators."
"At Rent the Runway, we rent designer clothes. We have a belief set that half of the closet over time is going to move into the cloud, and a portion of what we wear every single day will be comprised of things that we don't own forever."
"In order to really believe in an idea being revolutionary, you have to truly understand how it's going to revolutionize life."
"Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."
"You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them."
"When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts."
"I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room."
"Guests who shop at Ulta know exactly what we're about. People who have not shopped at Ulta or have not shopped at Ulta for a long time have a fuzzy image. And that's what I'm all about sharpening and elevating."
"As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology."
"I'm very much a team-oriented person. I love to have diverse viewpoints because I think we make better decisions."
"Nobody wants to sell their child, but what they wind up doing is selling their child to be able to support their family."
"Women are not all single-issue voters."
"I saw so many opportunities in the U.S. because I knew that I could make a living doing things I could never do in Romania."
