It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

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.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

Better to get off the train at this station. Than to do it later, when it's too late. Remember Time doesn't wait!

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

We have looked into the future and the future is ours.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.