Les Wexner Quotes


You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different than the present, and the present is past, as we say it. I think I, by nature, am an optimist. Maybe I was driven to escape from my childhood and to be something, create my own world or career the way I wanted it to be. And I keep doing that in very interesting ways.


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Wexner, Leslie H. "Leslie H. Wexner Interview." Academy of Achievement, 15 Feb. 2018.

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Les Wexner
Les Wexner
  • Born: September 8, 1937
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Chairman Emeritus L Brands

Leslie Herbert Wexner is an American billionaire businessman, the founder and chairman emeritus of L Brands (formerly Limited Brands). Wexner grew a business empire after starting The Limited, a clothing retailer with a restricted selection of profitable items, and later expanded his holdings to include Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie and Fitch, Express, and Bath & Body Works. Wexner announced, in February 2020, that he was transitioning from CEO of L Brands into the role of chairman emeritus. Wexner had a very close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that began in the 1980s and continued until at least 2007.