“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.

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

I think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth. If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.

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.

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.

A good product can last forever.

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

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.

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.

Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It’s important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It’s not a big investment.

Affordable luxury – these are two words that don’t go together.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

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.

If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

The words I speak, the things I do, let them be only, all for you.