Quotes from Jennifer Hyman

In order to really believe in an idea being revolutionary, you have to truly understand how it's going to revolutionize life.

I'm constantly running to meetings outside of the office, and I think that you can't go wrong with a great pair of Lanvin pumps.

When I traveled around the country visiting women in their own homes and talking to them about their closets, every woman lamented about 'settling' for many of the pieces in her closet.

We are helping women express themselves and feel awesome about themselves, and I think that does change the course of your day.

If you're passionate about something, go for it, because people are great at what they love and when they're the happiest.

When I feel like the day is great? Pasta. When I feel like I want the day to be great? Pasta. It's just awesome.

I didn't wake up one day and want to become an entrepreneur. I had the idea for Rent the Runway and thought it would be fun to work on and also thought if it was successful, it would make women feel great about themselves.

Clothing enables people to self-express, and that's why variety, when it comes to our wardrobe, has become more and more important over time.

My contribution to Rent the Runway as the CEO is higher than the contribution of someone on my warehouse team, but my pregnancy is not any more important than the pregnancy of any single person who works at my company.

Around the year 2000, businesses around the country went 'business casual.'

I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.

I think it's extremely important to think of your company as a series of chapters.

I've always felt the connection between clothing and confidence, which is why I probably was such a shopaholic.

People should think about their closets like they think about a stock portfolio. There are things you want to invest in; you make those investments, and those are your blue chips. So you should invest in a great pair of jeans, in a great cashmere sweater.

I actually think that self-expression comes, sometimes, from what you wear, and having the freedom to be able to wear whatever you want for whatever mood you want to wear it, but to not feel frivolous that all of those things that help you self-express have to be things that you're committing to forever.

We're in the '100 percent return' business. This is driving millions of new customers into brands; most of our customers are wearing brands they've never tried before.

The most important thing to Ben and me was starting a family, so as soon as we got engaged, we booked Gurney's in Montauk - which is just a few miles down the beach from our summer home - as our wedding venue a full year and a half out, and then we immediately started trying to get pregnant.

When choosing vendors for my wedding, I intentionally searched for women who were at the beginning of their own founder journeys.

Fashion should be a daily convenience, not a daily chore.

I want to have an 'Eat, Pray, Love' experience where I drop off the face of the planet and move to Greece.

It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture.

We derive confidence as women from what we wear.

There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.

All early entrepreneurs fall prey to the same problem, which is everyone believes that if you are super intense in the beginning, work long hours, that you can create something quickly and that entrepreneurship is almost something that happens overnight.