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.
BERNARD ARNAULTI meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
More Bernard Arnault Quotes
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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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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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Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 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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A good product can last forever.
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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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