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102 Estee Lauder Quotes

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I love Royal Ascot. I get a beautiful new outfit made and I see all my friends. I love the atmosphere, and the horses.
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I've tried not to sacrifice things for success. I never did anything that could hurt my children. I was always there for breakfast and dinner with them, and when I could I made it myself - and I didn't believe in any of that frozen food stuff. I was home when they got back from school, and when my husband got in I was always waiting.
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I love to entertain but I never have buffets, because I don't think it's nice for people to have to stand around holding plates all night. I always insist on making the first and last courses myself. I won't even use something store bought like strawberries, it has to be something I've obviously taken time and trouble with.
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[Business success does not come] From dreaming and wishing.
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[On each of her homes having a room with North light where she can work with colours, because she likes to] See women’s skins at different times of the year.
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I don't agree with people who say our things are expensive. It's all in the way you use them, and you need very little.
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[In 1977] My ambition was to make every woman beautiful, not to make money. There are no homely women, just lazy ones. We're the only cosmetic company still owned by a family, and we've always been able to plough money back into the company. Our life isn't how much we can take out, but how much we can put in.
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Everyone should eat four times a day, not three times. It gives you more strength and the blood is circulating all the time. All those women who diet dry up their faces and wonder why they get extra wrinkles.
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I never let anyone see me unless I know I look well, and that's how I want every woman to think. Every one of us can find the two minutes which is all it takes to look good.
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I'm a coward and I wouldn't want an operation, but false eyelashes, wigs, cosmetic surgery, they're all part of today's life.
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[On a mink clad lady waving a lipstick asking Estée Lauder while in a department store - ‘Madame, does this lipstick come off?’] Madame, if it doesn’t I’ll be out of business.
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What goes first as the skin ages is the eye area, or else shrivelled lips. If you're having your eyes done then don't do your neck or forehead.
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There are no ugly women, only lazyness. There's something wrong with a woman who doesn't want to look pretty and attractive. Believe me, there's no special age for beauty.
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There's no special age for beauty. [Estee Lauder lived to 97 years of age.]
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A wrinkle will never entirely disappear, but always remember that a soft wrinkle is better than a hard one!
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[In 1977] Every morning I have one and a half grapefruit, one poached egg on wholewheat toast, black coffee, and sometimes instead of eggs. Familia cereal with hot skimmed milk and sliced apple or banana.
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When your first and last courses are magical, what’s in the middle doesn’t count.
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Start the year with a new face.
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Every one of us can find the two minutes… it takes to look good.
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All those women who diet dry up their faces and wonder why they get extra wrinkles.
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Most good ideas sparkle in simplicity, so much so that everyone wonders why no one ever did that before.
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Our life isn't how much we can take out, but how much we can put in.
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(BONUS: [When asked how old he was] You’d better ask my mother [Estée Lauder] about that, I’m not sure what date she’s giving out this year – Leonard Lauder
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