Rachel Zoe Quotes

When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

My thing with fans is, it's always about being really good to them and taking the time to take every picture. If there are 300 people, you should take 300 pictures - you shouldn't take 250 because then fifty people will go home sad. Why would you do that?

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

I'm basically a gift-giver.

The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value.

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.

A dear friend of mine always brings a pineapple instead of flowers when he comes to a show. I love it.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

I like to give people more than their money's worth.

I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.

In 2nd grade, a girl who was a friend of mine gave me a homemade valentine. Like, a real, handwritten one!

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

If you're a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them enough. I'm never disappointed when I get flowers. I always thought guys who don't buy women flowers are such fools. All it takes is one. A little goes a long way with flowers.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

It's not about how big or expensive a present is, it's the thought that is so nice.

They even cut your hair free of charge.

it is the personal and individual thing which is done by one human being for another that is the most valuable assistance which can be rendered in time of trouble. Better not only for the one who receives, but a thousand times happier for the one who gives.

I respond to every email. I sign every autograph for every person.

Nobody has ever gifted me anything.