I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.

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.

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service.

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

My old man is a man of few words.

Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.