Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

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.

He tore his focus from her mouth, wondering how he could endure thirty days of this torture. Maybe he could make sure he wasn't around when she ate. Whipped cream especially.

As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.

What we think about, what we concentrate on, will always, always, be reflected on the outside.

I don't see the point of pretending we're clones.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.