Anna Wintour

“There's a ton of these stories where if you see Anna in an elevator, people will literally run out of the elevator so they don't have to ride up with her.”

“She knew that killing stories was necessary to let people know that you had standards.”

“It is probable that Condé Nast cannot afford to lose her. Advertisers run ads in Vogue not only because they think it will sell clothes, but also to secure Winter's favor and advice.”

“Photo shoots could cost six figures, and Anna did not feel that she had to publish the result just because they were expensive. She killed entire shoots to drive home the understanding that editors and photographers who wanted to have their work in her magazin…”

“So she stops going to formal schooling when she's 16. Because she says, I was desperate to get out into the world and get on with things. I wanted to work.”

“Resist any cheapening of the brand, however popular and lucrative it might be in the short term.”

“And this is why I always say belief comes before ability. Because even though she didn't know what she was doing, she just believed that she could figure it out. She did not second guess herself.”

“Editors of Vogue were powerful before Anna had that job, but she's expanded that power remarkably, making herself a brand that powerful people want to be associated with.”

“Not only does the person buying the table, usually a company have to be approved by Anna, but then even after you buy the table, if you say, Hey, I want to bring five guests, Anna has to approve all the guests that you bring, even after you bought the table. A…”

“Impressed with Anna's work in New York, she arranged a meeting with Mirabella. Mirabella asked Anna What job she would like at Vogue? And Anna replied, yours. That ended the meeting.”

“Vogue actually sells something called the Vogue 100. It is a private club whose members pay a 100,000 dollars a year just for access to Anna.”

“For people like Gagosian and for people like Anna Wintour, those are just marketing And sales showcases in disguise. They are working when they're doing that.”

“Her ex-husband, whose name's David Schaefer, he's the psychiatrist. He's been on record. He says that a lot of people debate, like, does Anna have the ability to empathize with other people? And he says very clearly that Anna is not capable of empathy.”

“In fact, Lieberman thought she was so talented, he made up a job for her that did not exist just to get her in the Condé Nast organization. That role was creative director of Vogue, a job that did not previously exist, and much to the annoyance and alarm of th…”

“I found Anna to be hyper-competent and ruthlessly efficient, so her meetings were So Lieberman's meetings, right, he likes to keep them very, very short, you know, five minutes at most. Her meetings are two minutes long. The first 60 seconds are guaranteed. Th…”

“She's now global chief content officer of Condé Nast, a role that has given her oversight of all of Condé Nast's magazines. So there's 32 different magazines that she's in control of. The only one that she's not in control of is The New Yorker.”

“She's gonna wind up getting fired multiple times actually.”

“Literally like fashion designers will change their entire line. If they get a negative feedback or if Anna doesn't buy in.”

“The same behavior by Anna is just being described as indomitable and ice queen and bitchy and all these other characterizations, but it is the same behavior. I don't think it is unique to her at all. And everything that Anna does, just like everything Steve Jo…”

“She has been the editor in chief of Vogue since 1988 and is one of the most powerful figures in media.”