Quotes from Natalie Massenet

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

The fashion cycle is outdated.

I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country.

If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.

Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

I'm an accidental entrepreneur.