Mary Quant Quotes

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.

As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.

Looking back, I've learned the most from the bad coaches, really, how not to act, how not to coach, how not to treat people. So I always say no matter what situations you're faced with, how bad it is, you can always walk away and learn. You can always rise above it.

To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.

I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they ran into.

Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter.

Success has to be an inside job. Happiness does not come from external material things. Even people don't make us ultimately happy. It's how we choose to deal with those things that happen in our lives that matters.

I just want to make music that matters, that people will remember for a long time.

I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now.

People would go anywhere to see a famous person in the flesh, no matter what they do.

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grain of sand, I may as well go out and relate to people and enjoy my short time on this planet that I have. Who knows what's coming next?

In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel. I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.