Quotes from Tory Burch

My father, Buddy Robinson, was superchic - a dandy. He always wore dinner jackets at night and espadrilles in the summer, but with his own flair. He was even well dressed when riding a tractor or listening to a ball game on the radio.

I love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.

There's a negative connotation to ambitious women, and I think that we should be able to be proud of being ambitious and not shy away from that, if that... is what you want to do.

It was ingrained in me to be gracious.

Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.

I would love to do special products for specific countries. As we go ahead and learn the territories, we're going to do exclusives for each area.

I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York.

Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

I love red licorice, but any bright candy - tangy taffy, Fruit Roll-Ups - does the trick.

It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

I go to concerts about once a month.

If I had to read only one author, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I love the mystical, magical quality of his writing.

We need to get women to the point where they aren't apologizing. Its time to take ownership in our success.

I think women want to look beautiful. I think that's an important thing. It is relevant.

For our Spring 2015 collection, I was inspired by the spirit of the artist Francoise Gilot.

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.

I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.

Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

I think women have a lack of confidence. They often apologize; I was guilty of that too. When people have said, "Oh, look at your success," I would downplay it.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.

My company is an extension of me, so when I designed my stores I wanted people to feel that they were in my home.