Alexander Wang Quotes

A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

Even though I design my own jewelry, one of the great things about my job is being able to bring in really talented collaborators.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.

I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.

We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.

It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

Successful reform requires a long-term vision, driven by political leadership.

Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

I don't think there's ever a silver bullet to any problem. There are always several answers and solutions to a problem.

There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather. The implications of that, in what it has from a grain standpoint, are enormous.

Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.

We need people with foresight who are willing to make films with smaller budgets and accept smaller profits.

Anything that we all can do to get a little bit better or think a little bit differently or use the lens of someone else in another industry to help in your own management, I think, is really important.