My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

Its important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.

A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

My daughter is my passion and my life.

It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.

Sure, scars can be painfull to look at, reminding you where you've been, but they also remind you of how far you've come.

If you control your distribution, you control your image.

By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.