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Leonard A. Lauder • The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty
However, I never, ever forgot that once you’ve lost market share, you can’t get it back again so easily. And I was always going to protect our market share, no matter how much it cost. As a private company, we had a huge advantage over our publicly held rivals: we could spend years nursing along a new brand or spending to gather market share becaus
... See moreLeonard A. Lauder • The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty
A multi-brand model for Estée Lauder had always been in my mind. I thought, “I know just what I’d do if I were competing with Estée Lauder. Why let a competitor do it? I’ll do it!”
Leonard A. Lauder • The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty
King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
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Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
The reason I say, "Listen, man, you guys should be reading Estee Lauder's autobiography", is because it is my belief that if you were able to bring her back from the dead and let her start a company today, she'd be kicking most entrepreneurs ass, up and down the court, Edwin Land too. Edwin Land started working on what would become Polaroid when he... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
PHIL KNIGHT Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus, Nike Inc.