Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
BERNARD ARNAULTIf you control your distribution, you control your image.
More Bernard Arnault Quotes
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It’s true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.
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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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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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I’ve always been pleased with the investments I’ve made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.
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In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
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Affordable luxury – these are two words that don’t go together.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.
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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.
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