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.

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.

Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

Do it because you WANT to, not just because you HAVE to. When you do what you want, you create an Unstoppable POWER.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.

She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.