Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.
BERNARD ARNAULTAnd 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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If you control your distribution, you control your image.
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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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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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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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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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Affordable luxury – these are two words that don’t go together.
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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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From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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Affordable luxury – these are two words that don’t go together.
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If you control your distribution, you control your image.
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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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