I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

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.

The extra-ordinary secret to success is nothing but ordinary belief.

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Bought the president the Louis presidential briefcase Never been a cheapskate

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.