I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don’t have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone. Mickey Drexler Read Quote
Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it’s about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they’ve done just inspires me. Mickey Drexler Read Quote
I don’t size up their grades or their board scores. Because in America today, that’s just an advantage certain people have. I size up the give and take, the speed of thinking, what I perceive as ambition. I say, ‘Tell me about your high school jobs.’ And I love people who worked in coffee shops who were waiters and waitresses. Mickey Drexler Read Quote
I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn’t particularly helpful. Mickey Drexler Read Quote
Training is expensive, and a lot of kids don’t get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I’ve grown up in. Mickey Drexler Read Quote
Hong Kong has always been a dynamic and exciting and high-energy city, and it has that New York thing going on, and people here care about how they look. Mickey Drexler Read Quote
My office has no walls. You can’t be removed from your team to be successful. You have to be respectful of others. Mickey Drexler Read Quote
The person is a resume, not what’s on a piece of paper. Whoever gives advice about resumes in college should be dismissed. Titles don’t matter. GPAs don’t matter, nor does what school you go to. Mickey Drexler Read Quote
I couldn’t stand not controlling my own product from how it’s manufactured to how it’s sold. Mickey Drexler Read Quote