Andrea Jung Quotes
"If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Time, Change, Will)
"You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Home)
"Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Women)
"We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Business, Will)
"No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Family, Blood, Marketing, professionals)
"I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Girlfriends)
"I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Beginning, Economy, First, Learning, Months, Old)
"Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Women, Family, Work, Management, Company)
"Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Beauty, Selling, First, Marketing, Will, Years)
"A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Beauty, People, Want)
"I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Career)
"Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly."
- Andrea Jung
(Related: Love, Mother, Wife, People, Frustration, Marketing, Passion)