Angela Ahrendts
Angela Ahrendts
Angela Jean Ahrendts, DBE is an American businesswoman and the senior vice president of retail and online stores at Apple Inc. She was the CEO of Burberry from 2006 to 2014. Ahrendts left Burberry to join Apple in 2014. Ahrendts was ranked 25th in Forbes' 2015 list of the most powerful women in the world, 9th most powerful woman in the U.K. in the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour 100 Power List, and 29th in Fortune’s 2014 list of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
Date of Birth12 June 1960
CountryUnited States of America
Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.
I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.
Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.
You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people's shoes.
We live by what we believe not but what we see.
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.
Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.
You're going to see relationships with technology across anything that's brand. I don't care if that's in home or what you wear. I just think it's a new fact of life.
Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.
It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.