Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

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.

Just because you took longer than others, doesn’t mean you failed.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that’s because it is the most threatening to those in power.

Since cancer is an anaerobic growth, enhancing aerobic metabolism in a cancer patient is like shining daylight on a vampire.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

Behind every problem in your life is a rich blessing.

He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

Today I am discovering who I am. Today I am becoming my person, worthy of developing all of me. Today I am beginning to know that I am okay the way I am.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.