Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.