Les Wexner Quotes

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'

We define our success internally.

My father has this expression that you have to be able to look yourself in the eyes in the mirror, you know, and know that you're a good person. If that's true and you feel good about yourself then that's all that matters no matter what other people's perceptions are.

I care a lot about what my girlfriend thinks, and my friends, but ultimately it's me in the mirror. I just want to be proud of what I do.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.

I'm very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.

I am Andre Schurrle and I don't compare myself to others.

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.

I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.

When you're getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what's the point of your life.