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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.

- Leonard Lauder

Lovely, Give, Always, Windsor

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.

- Leonard Lauder

Love, Art, Works, Printed

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.

- Leonard Lauder

Week, Every Day, I Think, Accusing

Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.

- Leonard Lauder

Winning, Battle, Over, Brand

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.

- Leonard Lauder

Yogurt, Same Thing, Peaches, Sliced

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

- Leonard Lauder

Single, Every Single Day, Single Day

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

- Leonard Lauder

Big, Pond, Specialized, Generalized

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

- Leonard Lauder

She, Elizabeth, Stopped, Watson

One person really can make a difference.

- Leonard Lauder

Person, Difference, Make, Make A Difference

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

- Leonard Lauder

Buildings, Builder, Collections

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

- Leonard Lauder

Happen, Like, Talks, Collect

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.

- Leonard Lauder

Dreams, Visionary, Use, Case

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.

- Leonard Lauder

Advice, Bad, Tell, Something Good

You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

- Leonard Lauder

Work, Want, Only, Successful

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

- Leonard Lauder

Love, Think, I Love, Gives

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.

- Leonard Lauder

Leader, Figure, Great Leader, Firstly

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

- Leonard Lauder

Woman, Think, I Think, Cosmetics

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

- Leonard Lauder

Fast, Big, Twice, Sunlight

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

- Leonard Lauder

Family, Living, Separate, Breathing

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