Top 25 Kate Spade Quotes

I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.

When you‘re trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.

I’m admittedly not that into the Internet.

Our family has dinner together every night – you can tell that my daughter wants to run. After dinner, I go up to my room and immediately put on my pajamas. I mean, immediately. I read some things that I haven‘t read yet, and I jump into bed.

Every time I go to the market, Andy says, ‘Don’t forget the Triscuits!’

Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you’re there for everything.

Students were pulled aside to spend more time in art class, and I wasn’t one of them.

I like my stationery to be funnier, like, ‘Here’s my note, and it’s an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.’

People have this impression that I’m a little kooky, but I’m actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I’m a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it’s hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that’s OCD.

I loved fashion, I really did, but I was not obsessed with it. I wanted to be behind the scenes, like in that movie ‘Broadcast News.’ Holly Hunter – her I wanted to be.

The best thing about being a business owner is that you get to run your own schedule.

The idea of recklessly spending money – even though it sounds like it’s lots of fun, it’s fashion – isn’t interesting to me. It is a business.

I think the details and the quality are so important that it has to have an emotional tug. Even if it’s the simplest shoe, it has to have something that says, ‘Oh, I have to have you.’

No one realizes how hard parenthood is. I am not saying going into the office is easy. It’s not. But parenthood, as fun as it is, is not for the fainthearted.

I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.

‘Frances’ is a longtime family name on my dad‘s side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter’s name is Frances.

If you’re as honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

I didn’t grow up thinking, ‘Oh, I’m going to be a designer.’

I collect books – a lot of books.

I like a full house because it’s how I grew up. I’m one of six children.

If I run, I’m much healthier – I run on a treadmill.

I really wish I worried less.

Sometimes I shoot out of bed like it’s a relay race, and I’m on the phone, leaving voice mails.

I love lamps. I can’t stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know ‘That Girl?’ Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it’s Park Avenue! And that’s what I can see out my window.