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Kenneth Cole

lines on the record: 111
first: 2020-11-16
most recent: 2020-11-16
sittings or episodes: 1
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“He didn't say that he was too proud, but my mother kind of encouraged it and he welcomed it And I wasn't thinking that this would be something I would jump in with both feet, but I knew once I started doing it, I also knew that I needed to commit to it, to learn it and to quickly have the respect of the people I was working with. And I did. I learned it. And I was fascinated by it, and I kept gravitating towards the sample room where I watched all these components, this piece of leather and plastic that was the heel or wood. a metal shape of a foot that became was the last and how all these things put together in a certain way became a shoe and how”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, truthfully, I went to school thinking I'd probably become a lawyer and I studied political science. And law was something I believed would create interesting alternatives for me going down the road. So I was admitted to a couple of Oskals. I did a pie. And then that summer, my father had his superintendent who was running the factory at the time resigned to go into competitions. And that factory was the proverbial hand that fed us. So I felt an obligation that summer to immerse myself in it and to learn the business to the degree that I could.”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He was, he served in the Philippines, he was a gunner. It was on several missions. And he was relentless. He was very determined. I learned a lot from him in many ways to do, in some cases what not to do. He was always working much more than he wasn't. And I always often reflect upon that being generational because I made it point to be the opposite with my kids to the degree I was able to. But work came first and second and we were often third. But he was focused, he was determined, and he was relentless.”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think he had acquired a small business, and I think that's what it was eventually, he assumed it. So he may choose and sold them in department stores at the time, women's shoes. But the last thing on my mind was the last thing I would have imagined myself doing, and the least masculine thing I could have imagined myself doing was going to the woman's shoe business. So it wasn't something I ever contemplated.”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My mother for a little bit did some charity work. My father was an entrepreneur. He was in different businesses. Later on, he was in that shoe business. He had a small shoe factory in a very tough part in New York at the time, Cote Williamsburg.”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Did and I also, by the way, leveraged that job to get one at Madison Square Garden where I got to see all the Nickin Ranger games.”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And there were no lights, so there were no night games. And they needed kids to work during the day. And the city was very tough. So they insisted that the students all had notes from their principals that they could take that time off from school. So I got my principal to give me a note saying that he thought it was a worthwhile cultural experience and he endorsed my employment at Chase Stadium.”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then I'd wake up every other day, once a day, and I realized that was not likely to happen. Actually, my first job was selling peanuts at Shea Stadium. I don't know if you know that. Was also a creative endeavor getting that job because it was during the World Series in 1969.”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“didn't and if you don't see my design it's like a tree in the forest i'm only as good as you know me to be And if I'm not out there, then I don't exist.”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“After consolidations and some bankruptcies And I said to myself that these guys are going to need to find economies. I thought at a certain point that buy similar shoes under their own labels and I'm not in business anymore”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What happened in 1994 was the landscape changed. When I started my business, there was maybe 70 or 80 departments that were changed in the United States. All of a sudden, 10 years later, there's maybe 15 or 20.”
2020-11-16 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Kenneth Cole: Kenneth Cole · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT