Affordable luxury - these are two words that don't go together.

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.

A good product can last forever.

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.

My wife watches me like a hawk.

Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.

n OthI n g can s urPas s the m y SteR y of s tilLnes s

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

One you've danced, you always dance.

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In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.