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

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 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.

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything

Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe.