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Natalie Massenet Quotes

I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

– Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I’m not always trying to stand out.

– Natalie Massenet

The only time I can’t sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

– Natalie Massenet

I love that I love my job, and from what I’m told, that others who I work with do, too.

– Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn’t venture down that road.

– Natalie Massenet

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

– Natalie Massenet

If you’re a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.

– Natalie Massenet

Ambition is important. Of course you can’t get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

– Natalie Massenet

I thrive on competition.

– Natalie Massenet

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

– Natalie Massenet

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you’re a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

– Natalie Massenet

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression – with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

– Natalie Massenet

Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.

– Natalie Massenet

A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

– Natalie Massenet

I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

– Natalie Massenet

Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn’t written in stone.

– Natalie Massenet

My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.

– Natalie Massenet

I’m supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project’s ambition – to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship – is something I feel strongly about.

– Natalie Massenet

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

– Natalie Massenet

It is a changing world with changing opportunities.

– Natalie Massenet

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

– Natalie Massenet

Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.

– Natalie Massenet

I’m the laziest person I know.

– Natalie Massenet

I don’t have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

– Natalie Massenet

I see ghosts.

– Natalie Massenet

You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women – in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.

– Natalie Massenet

I don’t work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don’t work out.

– Natalie Massenet

You can get a slouchy woman’s tunic at different price points. But if you want a great pair of trousers or a dress with delicate pleating, you’re going to have to spend a little more.

– Natalie Massenet

I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.

– Natalie Massenet

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I’m embracing that part of me.

– Natalie Massenet

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