Ann-Marie Campbell Quotes

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.

This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It's fun.

My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant.

I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn't fun to me and is not my skill set.

I did retail. I worked at TJ Maxx before. I did fast food at Shake Shack.

I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.

Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made me quite happy. It was another really good experience and we were all so surprised when they pulled the plug on it.

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

I actually did use to sell shoes.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

I'm very proud of my business career.

I have stocked shelves, waited on tables, and bartended. I have been a salesperson at many levels. Each giving me a unique view of what made a company successful and, even more importantly, what made a company fail.

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'

I would like to have a managerial career as a director.

It is difficult for every manager, I think, in the first year.

The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.