Huda Kattan Quotes

I'm a business person.

I'm not an Internet guy - I'm a business guy.

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

I'm not going to launch a bikini business and then give up bikinis, am I?

It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.

I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.

I've always been a businesswoman.

I really didn't want to become branded as 'that multistructural guy.'

I've been on, like, the forefront of social media. I run all my own pages, and this is back to MySpace and answering my own emails in, like, 2006. Even before that, I always had websites with emails that dropped directly to me.

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

Twitter, just every once in a while I put something out there basically to promote whatever I'm doing, but I don't see any of that as representing me or who I am or being a brand.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

Every day is different. I am constantly creating, whether that be for my own YouTube channel and social networks or my businesses like FAWN (For all Women's Network) - a women's lifestyle network on YouTube that I founded/produce; em michelle phan (my cosmetics line with L'Oreal); or Ipsy (a beauty sampling service I co-founded in 2011).

Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.

I think it's hard to compare 'Twitter' and 'Instagram'. Twitter has a more mature business.

I'm big into my Twitter account.

I write my own blog every day. I do the Twitter every day and the Facebook. Without a gap. I do everything myself: I load my own photographs; I sometimes take my own videos and post them.

Just about any growth company is going to need smart salespeople, account and project managers, business development, marketing, operations, customer service, content creation, communications, analytics, and social media.

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

When someone calls me a blogger, I think, 'That's one of the things I used to do.' I'm a creative director for my shoe brand; I'm the editor-in-chief of 'The Blonde Salad,' which is a website and not just a blog anymore.

I could have been like so many other bloggers or 'influencers' who just have their agent and are more like celebrities, but I've never wanted it to be only like that. Of course, I still want that part in my life, but I also wanted to create a brand.

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

My passion is creating and marketing. That's what I'm really, really good at, and that's what I find the most stimulating for my brain to work on, so that's what I really, really want to do as opposed to product creation.

I started my blog back in 2009 because every Internet business and marketing seminar I watched at the time told me I had to. I had been trying to get a business started selling dating and life advice and was struggling.

People make careers off of Instagram. So in that sense, it's really good, and you can put yourself out there and be open.