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.

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.

IT’s All In The Game Of Mind.

Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens”.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

The problem with tomorrow is that I have never seen a tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist. Tomorrow only exist in the mind of dreamers and losers.

Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.