Kim Kardashian Says Doubt Drives Her to Succeed
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SKKY Partners Managing Partner and co-Founder Kim Kardashian talks about having to prove herself as a young entrepreneur after building a successful business empire. The reality TV star says even she can feel insecure. She speaks during an interview taped for "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations" on June 7.
Now, you've built several businesses.
When you were building them, people would say,
well, she can't really build a fragrance business
or she can't really build a clothing business
because she doesn't have a background in that.
But they turned out to be extremely successful.
So did people not think that you could do it,
urge you to make it even more successful?
Or were you nervous that maybe they were right
and you couldn't build those businesses?
Or how did you feel about it
when you were building these businesses from scratch?
I definitely always took the doubt as motivation.
I always felt like, and still do,
always feel a bit insecure about it.
Confident in the brand, I love creating a brand
and launching a brand and the whole process of it.
I always have those, I think, healthy nerves
when you're launching something,
especially on a launch day or a product launch day.
But I've always felt a little bit,
I've always felt the doubt
and I've always just taken that as motivation
to have me focus more and work harder
and felt like I had more to prove.