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Mindy Grossman


"By leveraging technology, innovation, and the power of community, Weight Watchers will be able to realize the full growth potential of the business."
Mindy Grossman

Growth Technology Business Power
"You have to understand who your customer is and her motivations and marry it to what's happening in the outside world."
Mindy Grossman

You World Who Your
"I'm a love-it-or-hate-it person. I don't waffle."
Mindy Grossman

Person Waffle
"It's OK to not have all the answers, and in fact, the more extraordinary people you are able to surround yourself with, the better you will become."
Mindy Grossman

You People Yourself Better
"Value can mean a price. Value can mean exclusivity. Value can mean, 'I can't get it anywhere else, and this is really something I want.'"
Mindy Grossman

Value Want Something Price
"If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done things and created things for people that they didn't think they'd ever be able to do. That excites me."
Mindy Grossman

Me You People Think
"It seemed like I woke up one morning and had an epiphany. I thought, 'I cannot do this. I do not want to get married. And I'm not going to law school - it just doesn't excite me. I'm not wasting anybody's money. I'm going to move to New York.'"
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Me Morning Money Law
"I don't care what we're quote-unquote selling; we're about inspiring people through storytelling."
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People Care Through About
"I have this whole theory that whether it's in your personal life or in your business life, you have to establish a culture of generosity wherever you are."
Mindy Grossman

Life You Business Culture
"I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?"
Mindy Grossman

You Business People Power
"I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path."
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Path Never Always Risk
"We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse."
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Women More Need Senior
"I believe you have to get rid of toxicity in any company. Don't care how smart, how talented, how long they have been there. If someone is going to create a toxic environment, you have to make a change."
Mindy Grossman

Change Long You Believe
"Ultimately, the ability to inspire people to live healthier and happier lives is what excites me both personally and professionally."
Mindy Grossman

Me People Live Ability
"All children, regardless of their income, ethnicity, or geography have the right to be protected and be given the opportunity to reach their full potential, which is why our global HSNi Cares partner is the U.S. Fund for UNICEF."
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Opportunity Children Geography Right
"Companies lose some of their best employees when people are beaten down; then they overpromote junior people because they can't persuade outsiders to sign on."
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Best People Lose Down
"I started at HSN in May of 2006, and by October, we had rolled out a new brand image, a new tagline, a new vision statement, a new customer manifesto, and new advertising."
Mindy Grossman

October Vision New Advertising
"I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else."
Mindy Grossman

You Yourself Believe Will
"I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people to do things that maybe they thought weren't possible."
Mindy Grossman

People Purpose Risks Things
"I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback."
Mindy Grossman

You Culture Believe Honesty
"I find out as much from the guy in backstage TV as I do from my C.F.O. Anybody can e-mail me. I do town halls with employees at least once every eight weeks. I'm out there, and it makes a huge difference."
Mindy Grossman

Me Difference Find Guy
"Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition."
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Good Truth Long You
"Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation."
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Women Diversity Conversation Us
"There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful."
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Simple Business Diversity More
"I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you."
Mindy Grossman

Life Me You People
"Throughout my career, no matter what I've done or what decision I've made, I've made it with my family first. My priority was taking care of my family while I was taking care of business."
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Family Business Matter Decision
"I spend all day thinking of shopping. I love the thrill of finding that wonderful, perfect thing, the feeling of your heart racing because it's so right."
Mindy Grossman

Love Heart Day Thinking
"I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as the outside. Nobody's going to see it, but you know it's there."
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Love Beautiful You Quality
"The model of getting the consumer to come to you is old, and the new model is how can you get to the consumer on their terms, in ways they want to engage in. How people are choosing to interface with content is very different. You've got to marry different platforms."
Mindy Grossman

You People Getting New
"Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty."
Mindy Grossman

Today Experience You World
"What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller."
Mindy Grossman

Success Great Product Story
"The days of trying to get a consumer to come to you are over. You really have to be in the consumer's world, wherever, whenever and however."
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You World Trying Consumer
"I've honed in on three questions that I ask myself when I'm evaluating where to spend my time. Is this something that I'm passionate about, is it purposeful, and will I have impact? And if I can't answer 'yes' to all three questions, then I have to sit back and ask, 'Is it really that important?'"
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Myself Time Will Important
"If you intend to do the right thing for yourself, your family, and for your business, it becomes more like a balancing act. It's juggling - and accepting the fact that it won't always be perfect will help you better manage the inevitable ebbs and flows."
Mindy Grossman

Family You Business Yourself
"As women, we can over-think things so much that we silence our intuition and only focus on the reasons something won't work."
Mindy Grossman

Work Women Silence Focus
"Command-and-control isn't the kind of corporate culture people want to be in anymore."
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Culture People Want Kind
"I've worked for some amazing leaders, and I've worked for the opposite, and that gave me the perspective of what I knew I never wanted to be, and the perspective of what had lasting, sustainable impact."
Mindy Grossman

Me Amazing Never Perspective
"I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves."
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Passion Vision Person Think
"The only thing I liked on HSN was Wolfgang Puck selling cookware. He was funny and engaging. He gave you recipes. Even if you didn't want to buy anything, you could watch Wolfgang for an hour."
Mindy Grossman

Funny You Want Anything
"Too many people who come in as CEO of a poorly performing company assume that none of the incumbent executives are worth retaining. That's not always the case. Sometimes the talent is there, but it's not being led well."
Mindy Grossman

People Talent Always Sometimes
"I'm willing to lose profits in the short term."
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Lose Short Willing Profits
"We are always focused on how can we differentiate ourselves. In today's world, where people are gravitating toward experiences, it is even more important."
Mindy Grossman

Today World People Always
"We have to focus on what we can do. It has to be about experience; it has to be about unique product. It has to be about delivering our content as broadly as we can, and that's been a huge effort on our part."
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Experience Effort Focus Unique
"My first Weight Watchers meeting was when I was 14 years old on Long Island, and I went there with my mother. I'd gained that adolescent weight and wanted to try out for cheerleading... I lost the weight, tried out, and made the cheerleading team."
Mindy Grossman

Long Try Mother Lost
"When people want to lose weight, they get to a point where they are desperate and looking for the new thing that is going to work miracles. But at the end of the day, there is no such thing."
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Work People Day End Of The Day
"I've been 35 lbs. heavier than I am now and 25 lbs. thinner than I am now, and both of those times were probably the most miserable times of my life. I'm happier now, because it is about being healthy, not weighing yourself."
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Life Yourself I Am My Life
"HSNi Cares was established in 2010 with a mission to empower women and support children and families in need locally, nationally, and globally."
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Women Children Support Mission
"We all work really hard, and we do it because we're passionate. We don't do it because we're being rated. However, we'd all be remiss if we didn't think that some kind of recognition for efforts and accomplishments didn't make you feel good."
Mindy Grossman

Work Good You Feel
"I think technology, on one side, you can look at it; it's disrupted a lot of industries and businesses. On the other side, it's enabled us to do things that we never thought possible in being able to engage customers."
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You Technology Look Never

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