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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
Imran Amed
Best
Fashion
Day
People
End Of The Day
Way
Best Way
About
Glamour
Learn
Operations
Leaving
End
Done
Getting
Aside
Successful
Who
Therefore
Things
As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
Imran Amed
Me
Technology
Made
Other
Way
Run
Running
More
Small
Feels
Like
Global
Enabling
Opposed
Times
Efficient
Where
Happen
Much
Company
Round
I have met with hundreds of young fashion designers, hundreds of fashion startups, hundreds of CEOs and business leaders. All I do is get to ask questions of professionals in the industry. I learn from every conversation. It is the best education I could have.
Imran Amed
Education
Best
Fashion
Conversation
Business
Met
Young
Every
Startups
Hundreds
Could
Leaders
Industry
Learn
Questions
Get
CEOs
Ask
Business Leaders
Professionals
Designers
The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.
Imran Amed
You
Amazing
Matter
Will
About
Most
Most Amazing
Him
Answer
Always
Amazing Thing
Get
Interesting
Notes
Ask
Karl
Even
Thing
You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.
Irving Kristol
You
Commitment
Big
Those
Something
Had
Leaders
Idea
Know
Stick
Big Commitment
Leave
Permitted
Big Idea
Very
Legacy
Big Thing
Them
Create
Who
Thing
I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.
Isabella Blow
Me
Hat
Prop
Part
Use
Young designers don't grow on trees.
Isabella Blow
Young
Trees
Grow
Designers
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
Jack Kroll
Nature
Joy
Language
Nervous
Changes
Our
Those
Gifts
Systems
Kinds
Spirits
He
Boundaries
Over
New
Leaps
Inexplicable
Artist
Senses
Creates
Who
Startled
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
Jack Kroll
People
Joy
Pure
Astaire
Fred
Fred Astaire
Pure Joy
More
More People
Than
Did
Any
Artist
Ever
Bring
There's a mobile app for almost anything you may want to do, any situation you confront.
Jacqueline Leo
You
Situation
Almost
Almost Anything
Mobile
Any
May
Want
Anything
Confront
App
Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.
Jacqueline Leo
Life
You
Merry
Hours
Go
Were
Fit
Get
Sane
Keep
Round
Necessary
Sleep
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
Jacqueline Leo
Great
Business
Invent
Great Business
Critics
Rarely
Write
Idea
New
Come
Up
New Technologies
Novels
Creators
Technologies
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
James Gordon Bennett
Mistake
Made
Mistakes
Claiming
Never
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers in major towns and cities supplemented by thousands of smaller shops that carried limited stocks of mostly current titles along with greeting cards, toys and so on.
Jason Epstein
War
Business
World
Books
Marketplace
Entered
Independent
Carried
Cities
Thousand
Thousands
Supplemented
Smaller
Major
Along
Towns
Toys
Well
Mostly
Limited
Stocks
Current
Shops
Greeting
After
Titles
Cards
World War
World War II
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
Jason Epstein
Time
Memory
Humanity
Book
Collective
Our
Books
Civilization
True
Test
Survive
Publishing
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.
Jason Epstein
Work
Today
Game
Reward
Own
Profit
Though
Stay
Vocation
General
Never
Primary
Primary Goal
Insufficient
Non-Fiction
Goal
Essential
Fiction
Which
Publishing
The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.
Jason Epstein
Old
Will
World-Wide
Market
Books
Cost
Delivery
Soon
New
Practically
Click
Revolutionary
Mouse
Storage
Decentralized
Irreversible
Process
Which
Available
Languages
Radically
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.
Jason Epstein
Digital
Will
Become
Increase
Virtual
Bookstores
Physical
Disappear
Perhaps
Exploit
Themselves
Publishers
Technologies
I'm definitely interested in two questions: 'Is anybody ever really irredeemable?' and 'How much are we all prepared to do for each other?'
Jeff Giles
Other
Definitely
How
How Much
Questions
Anybody
Interested
Much
Really
Each
Prepared
Ever
Two
Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.
Jeff Giles
Oblique
Writes
Unsettling
Weird
Stuff
Scott
In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.
Jeff Giles
Miserable
Rich
Onassis
Out
Only
She
Because
Stands
The YA category changes pretty fast. I'm so impressed by what these authors do.
Jeff Giles
Changes
Pretty
Category
Ya
Impressed
Authors
Fast
There are all kinds of voices in YA, and they are realistic and unflinching.
Jeff Giles
Realistic
Kinds
Voices
Ya
My father-in-law lives in Montana, and we would come here every summer.
Jeff Giles
Every
Father-In-Law
Montana
Summer
Would
Come
Lives
Here
Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them.
Jeff Giles
Cats
Finished
Build
Reading
Our
Books
Finally
Giddy
At Least One
One Thing
Constantly
Touch
Take
Towers
Pictures
Least
Dogs
Get
Authors
Common
Which
Them
Thing
Copies
In its more listless moments, 'Pharaoh's Army' seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.
Jeff Giles
Memories
Army
Telling
Collection
Seems
More
Concerned
Overly
Story
Moments
Larger
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