Huda Kattan Quotes

“I loved business.”

“When I started my business, people thought it was just a hobby and I wanted people to take me seriously.”

“People assume if you need a specific product for something, it's already out there, instead of creating something yourself from the ground up. If you have a great idea and don't try and create something from it then I really believe you're doing the world a disservice. If it fails, what's the worst that can happen? You might have wasted a little time but you're going to learn a lot.”

“We started our business with no funding or had any outside investors. Our sister was our first investor! There was a year where I didn't take a salary because we needed to pay our employees.”

“I don't think about them [setbacks] too much. I don't care about the problems, my immediate thought is always 'What's the solution?' There are always going to be problems along the way but you can't let them consume you.”

“If I do something I'm not passionate about, how am I going to impact the world? And if I am not changing the world in some way then what am I doing?”

“Our brand started as a blog. It was really challenging at the beginning because when you start a brand all you have is a belief and passion for something – you don't actually know if that 'something' will materialise into anything.”

“Am I comfortable talking about fillers and going under the knife? Yeah. I've gone under the knife, so what? People can judge me, I'm comfortable with it.”

“I struggled so much and said – what do I want to do with my life? I had dinner with my family and my sister Mona said, you should go study makeup and my parents were like, you should do that, I said, what, so then I literally got up booked my ticket to LA found a school and studied makeup.”

“It feels really powerful to be able to embrace being a woman in the Middle East who's not afraid to go into a boardroom and tell a room of men how it is.”

“I love to surround myself with strong, opinionated personalities. I like to hear people's opinion in the team, but I definitely have the final say.”