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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.

Bernard Arnault

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
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Build Business Heritage Luxury Yourself
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.
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Expansion Focus Luxury
If you control your distribution, you control your image.
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Control Distribution Image
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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Inspiration Learning Right Thinking Time
A good product can last forever.
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Forever Goodness One Liner Product
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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Develop Freedom Jobs Leadership Reined
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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Conductor Country Good Play
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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Business Creativity Success
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
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France People Resident
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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Business Learning Myself Patience Right Thinking Time Yourself
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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Investment Made Pleased Regret Richer
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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Capital Detracting Investment Venture
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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Challenge Doubt Evolve Fast Generation Growth Next
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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Childhood Country Enjoyable Entrepreneur
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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DNA People Thinking Unpredictable
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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Building Creative Engineering Jobs Success
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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Creative Management Sides
Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
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Areas Business Luxury Money Product Profit Yourself
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.
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Brand Expand Expensive Image Reputation Term World
I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.
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Close Myself Time Togetherness
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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Construction Creativity Decision Modern Organization Ourselves Symbol Tower
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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Country Group Opposites People World
A good product can last forever.
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Forever Lasts Products
In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
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Build Business Heritage Luxury
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. .
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Buying Numbers Population Potential
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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Appreciation Artist Creativity Love Mindset People Understand Yourself
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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Follow Happiness Investment Mentor Myself Rich Togetherness

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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