Charles Revson Quotes

110 Charles Revson Quotes (Revlon Quotes)

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We don’t sell lipsticks. We sell dreams.
Charles Revson

Perfume is made in the factory, ‘hope’ is sold in the store.
Charles Revson

In terms of marketing you’ve got to have the will to win.
Charles Revson

Why am I the only one who thinks around here?
Charles Revson

Publicity is honest fiction.
Charles Revson

When you gotta learn, you gotta learn.
Charles Revson

The trick isn’t to know when you have it, the trick is to know when you don’t.
Charles Revson

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
In the factory, we manufacture cosmetics. In the store, we sell hopes.
Factories make products, which in the stores are sold as hope.
In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.
Charles Revson

Creative people are like a wet towel. You wring them out and pick up another one.
Charles Revson

Products don’t change as fast as colors; and colors don’t change as often as you think.
Charles Revson



I don’t meet competition, I crush it.
Charles Revson

A man gets his strength from a woman and then he goes on from there.
Charles Revson

A woman shouldn’t try to make a paint job of her face.
Charles Revson

I don’t ship sh*t.
Charles Revson

All I demand is perfection.
Charles Revson

I used to sell bullsh*t.
Charles Revson

I went back and bought the bullsh*t back for more than I sold it for so I could use it again to sell it for even more than I paid for it.
Charles Revson

I’ll learn everything about it – that I will… There’s nothing about it I won’t learn.
Charles Revson

The only thing you can say about me is that if I have something to do, I’ll learn everything about it…
Charles Revson

Copy everything and you can’t go wrong.
Charles Revson



The thing that has ruined companies is when looseness sets in.
Charles Revson

The day we get soft, we’ll go down fast.
Charles Revson

You don’t hire a man, you hire a family.
Charles Revson

If you don’t have great marketing, you will not make it. You do have some chance with great marketing and mediocre administration and mediocre operations to make it, but vice versa, you will not make it…
Charles Revson

I don’t think if the competition have got something wonderful, whomever they may be, that there is anything wrong in looking at it, and copying it.
Charles Revson

[On Suzy Parker another Revlon girl who was the younger sister of Dorian Leigh] They don’t make combos like that anymore.
Charles Revson

We might be wearing ‘light chocolate’ colored makeup soon.
Charles Revson

We should experiment more.
Charles Revson

We should have as many colored lipsticks as dresses to be really smart.
Charles Revson

The most important aid to beauty – is lipstick.
Charles Revson



[On describing the woman with sex appeal] She does everything she can to attract without becoming a slave or hysterical about the way she looks. Of course, a lot of it has to do with her inner view of herself and that’s what’s going to be revealed in her appearance.
Charles Revson

[To Michel C Bergerac] The company will never be sold out to anyone! No one is going to take over Revlon, now or ever.
Charles Revson

Brother? What brother? I don’t have a brother.
Charles Revson

It would take a week in the country to get the radiant look my new facecolor gives you in a minute.
Charles Revson

[In 1960] I’ll make it. Meanwhile, everybody hates me.
Charles Revson

I have created 3 new powder eyeshadow formulas, that give purer, fresher color than ever before.
Charles Revson

[On some employees talking about Pope Paul passing right by Revlon’s office during lunchtime] What the hell are you guys talking about?… What the hell for? We don’t sell to the Vatican.
Charles Revson

The trouble with you guys, is that you don’t know how to concentrate on what you’re doing. I’m going to tell you something. You know what that phone call was about? That was my broker, and he told me that I lost a million dollars just now. But it didn’t bother me. I got right back into this conversation.
Charles Revson

[Early in his business career to a customer being owed $48.00] I know your credit’s very good, but my credit’s not so good. My brother’s walking around downstairs, and we need the money.
Charles Revson

I ordered two minute eggs, and these are two and a half minute eggs!
Charles Revson



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