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.

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.

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.

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.

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

One isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb."- Poppy (quoting Win)

Make people have a smile when they finish your e-mail.

I've always liked older ladies. I'm comfortable with it. They seem to be nice. They've seen it all.

Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

I can't be all things to everyone.

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

So take my advice: whatever you do? Don’t blink

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.'