Carine Roitfeld Quotes

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

I must have worked with over 100 actors, but I think there are four to five names I count on my fingers and say they are my friends.

I hang out with people I have worked with - most of my friends I've met because I've worked with them, to be honest.

It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.

When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.

I met one of my best resources because I cold-called the local FBI office one day early in my career with questions. The agent who took the call knew someone who knew someone who was ex-Army, trained in personal protection. The resulting introduction was one of the best, most enduring friendships I've ever enjoyed.

So many of the people who I played opposite, or just worked with, became friends forever.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genuine friend. Robert Rodriguez is a genuine friend. Rick Richard Linklater is a genuine friend. Eli Roth is a genuine friend. And so is Edgar Wright.

I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

I've met some of my best friends in the world working for Victoria's Secret.

I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.

MC Lyte definitely embraces me. Jada Pinkett Smith embraces me. Those are two people that I can call and get advice. Those are two people that will call me to see what I'm doing.

I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.

I have some lifelong friends I grew up with.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.

You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it be owners, GM's, coaches, players, trainers, all the way down. And that doesn't even account for all of the people that you encountered outside of the game that you met along this trip, too.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Learning how to be editor-in-chief of 'Vogue' wasn't something that happened overnight.