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“In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.”

Quote by Les Wexner

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Les Wexner

Les Wexner is an American businessman renowned for his role as the founder and CEO of Limited Brands, Inc., a retail conglomerate that includes popular brands such as Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works. Born on September 8, 1937, Wexner has been a key figure in the retail and fashion sectors for more than five decades. more

“A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Made Said Stills Young Rose Smell Young Man Lots Of Money Truck

Author:Les Wexner

“Were I not a king, I would be a university man.”

Men Would Be Kings University

Author:King James I

“I can't live off the ego.”

I Can Ego

Author:Steven Tyler

“I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.”

Thinking I Can Remember My Own Grew Wine Bottles Drank Grapes My Own Life

Book:Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. Fisher