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.
BERNARD ARNAULTI am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
More Bernard Arnault Quotes
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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.
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From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
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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.
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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.
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Affordable luxury – these are two words that don’t go together.
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Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.
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In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
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When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.
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Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
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From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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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.
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If you control your distribution, you control your image.
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When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.
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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.
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