Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.

If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward.