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Jane Wurwand Quotes

28 quotes from Jane Wurwand — Founder of Dermalogica, the professional skincare brand used by skin therapists in 100+ countries..

This is more than a story about skin care. It's about living your biggest life, never shrinking yourself, and refusing to allow others to shrink you. Ever.

Empowerment

Learn how to do something.

Advice from her motherWisdom

Everything you need is already inside you. Embark on the ultimate treasure hunt to find your authentic self.

Self-Discovery

My driving force has always been skillset training and making people successful who didn't go to university.

Education

There are no miracle ingredients!

Realism

We're also very honest, and we're very direct. We under-promise and over-deliver.

Integrity

I learned to disrupt the skin care industry – by training hundreds of thousands of professional skin therapists.

Innovation

Dermalogica's story is really the story of our founder.

Entrepreneurship

I used what I learned about myself to see an opportunity that everyone else had missed.

Opportunity

The lessons I learned along the way help you identify your unique traits, find your authenticity, seize your potential.

Personal Growth

I began building the number one brand in the professional skincare industry.

Success

I realized there was no product that focused on skin health instead of beauty alone.

Health

Are you ready to live your biggest life?

2021 Bazaar SummitEmpowerment

It's your life, but you haven't lived it yet, not all of it...there is always time to hit the reset button.

2021 Bazaar SummitPerseverance

Each of us is the entrepreneur of our own life.

2021 Bazaar SummitEntrepreneurship

It's not about not having fear, it's about being able to function when you are scared to death.

2021 Bazaar SummitCourage

If you have 70 per cent of the information, you have enough to make a decision.

2021 Bazaar SummitDecisiveness

You were on the right train, you just got off at the wrong station. Hit reset again.

2021 Bazaar SummitResilience

No product gets approved until I've used it and I say, 'Okay, I think it's great.

Quality

We have a lot of attachment to things that served us in the past... it's obviously very deep and complex.

Change

Because they get results. People who have very sensitive skin, or people who have skin challenges have always gravitated to Dermalogica, because they feel very safe.

Trust

I actually wrote down my first kind of statement of purpose: total world domination of professional skincare.

Jane Wurwand

Don't you ever dare shrink yourself for someone else's comfort. Do not become small for others who refuse to grow.

Jane Wurwand

Self-funded, we never took a loan. When we built the company to an acquisition, we owned it 100%, we had never given equity, never taken a loan, there was no debt to pay off.

Jane Wurwand

If you're having to ask permission to spend money, you are not in control of your power. And it's not because money's important. It's because options and choices and opportunities are important.

Jane Wurwand

As scared as I was — and I was scared of course — knowing I could do that, it starts to build your confidence.

Jane Wurwand

It does not really matter where you came from, what matters is where you are going.

Jane Wurwand

That's the ultimate success: driving your own destiny just the way you want to. And having the bloody courage to do it.

Jane Wurwand

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