I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.

The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.

The more you give, the more you live.

Vogue Magazine does something really interesting here: They make it look like I know exactly what I'm doing. Because Vogue made it look like I knew exactly what I'm doing, stores from all over started calling.

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop