Top 45 Mickey Drexler Quotes

Data is very important, but you have to be good at reading the data in an emotional way. If you look at a selling report, there’s an emotional trend to what’s selling.

While 2015 was challenging, we implemented many strategic and operational initiatives to improve our business and better position J.Crew for the future.

The person is a resume, not what’s on a piece of paper. Whoever gives advice about resumes in college should be dismissed. Titles don’t matter. GPAs don’t matter, nor does what school you go to.

Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it’s about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they’ve done just inspires me.

I’m looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it’s about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they’ve done just inspires me.

I like to prove things wrong.

Service drives a lot of my decisions.

I look at companies as price-players or quality-players. The only way to go with J.Crew was quality.

I’m looking forward to partnering with TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners. This transaction is a clear endorsement of J. Crew and the hard work and dedication of all of our associates.

You have to build a team, but someone‘s got to lead, and someone’s got to be unpopular at times.

I loved the fact that if you put goods on the floor, you could watch them sell.

I didn’t like the name ‘personal shopper.’ That makes it sound like too much of a commodity and not personal enough.

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.

I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don’t have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone.

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.

You know what ends up on the markdown racks? All the weird colors. Guys don’t wear orange or citron.

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.

My personal opinion about the world is that it’s homogenized.

Don’t be buying out of emotion. Buy less if you love something but feel it’s a risky item. We don’t want overstock. And remember: No profit, no fun!

If you don’t care about the lapel or the buttons or the fit, then you are doing a disservice to the consumer. We’re all inside the tunnel, speaking the language of business, but we need to speak the language of customers.

I like someone who’s focused and can tell me what they’ve done well and not well and who’s very open, honest, and self-aware.

When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.

People like consistency. Whether it’s a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.

It is our job as always to focus on what we can control in the business.

I think it’s in my mind, and it’s driven me my entire life, and it is to offer customers tasteful clothes at good value, meaning it lets the world – or more of the world – afford to dress well.

I call them associates; I don’t like the word ‘employee.’

If you think you know the consumer better than anyone, then you’re in real trouble. So we take a close watch. You spend time in stores.

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.

You can’t separate the clothes from the stores, from the environment.

I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

I’ve yet to see a correlation in my industry between great social media and great numbers.

The British invented the classic look. Men’s apparel was created in London, the great English style. You have to respect this country‘s suits, shirts, shoes, luggage.

Celebrities have nothing to do with style.

I don’t buy art. I’d rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

Training is expensive, and a lot of kids don’t get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I’ve grown up in.

Everything has a trend to it; I don’t care if it’s appliances or engines. I always ask, ‘What has a company done in the past five years that somebody‘s noticed?’

I’m an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

In a business, you have a vision, and you follow the vision. You have to execute. And then you have to learn how to run a good business. And I think if you look at the characteristics of any successful fashion business, it’s all about that.

If you get a pant that fits the woman, as all women know, you get a loyal customer for life.

I would like Madewell jeans to be the Levi‘s of its generation.

We have secured names and trademarks with either loose ideas or intentions, or with our imaginations. Sometimes things come of it, or they don’t.

Every single day, I’m curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale’s.

When you say something, and a thousand people are hearing it, you hope you leave an impression.