A good product can last forever.

I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

If you control your distribution, you control your image.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

A good heart cannot lye

Donald Trump has always had women around him in powerful positions. That's true in his corporation, in his campaign, and now his cabinet.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.