Bobbi Brown Cosmetics

“No, no, that's not accurate, you know, but I, my name, I sold my name.”

“They never paid me a nickel, and I never, ever pushed my brand.”

“We were beating Estee Lauder and Neiman Marcus at the time.”

“And then there was a Dallas-based company that tried to buy us, a finance company, that basically finally said, if you won't sell to us, we're just gonna knock you off with another makeup artist, which they did which is fine.”

“Well, we thought we would sell a hundred lipsticks the first month, which, you know, that was the thought, and we did a hundred the first day.”

“I used to hire, approve and hire and interview every person that walked in that brand, and then I didn't anymore, and all of a sudden there were people Working on my brand that I never met before, and that I might not have hired”

“But of course, today, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics is a brand that's been estimated to generate over a billion dollars of revenue a year.”

“They never paid me a nickel, and I never, ever pushed my brand.”

“Once we agreed that we would be partners, there was nothing in writing, it was just, wow, this could be interesting. It wasn't anything more than that.”

“You are beating us In the stores, and we were beating Estee Lauder and Neiman Marcus at the time.”

“Honestly, if you really asked me why I left, I needed to be the boss again.”

“I used to hire and interview every person that walked in that brand, and then I didn't anymore, and all of a sudden there were people working on my brand that I never met before, and that I might not have hired, and you know, it was a struggle, and I tried to …”