Quotes from Natalie Massenet

I cry at anything remotely touching - smile at me warmly and I'm off... television also does it, everything from 'X-Factor' to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh.

Audrey Hepburn has influenced me.

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.

One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'

It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.

You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.

You can get a slouchy woman's tunic at different price points. But if you want a great pair of trousers or a dress with delicate pleating, you're going to have to spend a little more.

My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.

Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.

People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.

Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.