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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.

Bernard Arnault

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
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
If you control your distribution, you control your image.
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Control Distribution Image
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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Bad Business Effect Globalization Group Opposite Ourselves
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
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. 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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Big Brand Capital Context Famous Investment Money Work
Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
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Goods Luxury Margin
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
I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.
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Arms Rounds Take Time
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
From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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Exceptional Play Time
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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Creativity Management Sensible Side Understand Yourself
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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Creative Design Management
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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Action Country Ideas Practice Thinking
A good product can last forever.
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Forever Goodness One Liner Product
Affordable luxury – these are two words that don’t go together.
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Affordable Luxury Together Two
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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Designer Discussion Myself Project Togetherness
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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Combination Creativity Myself Organization Process
If you control your distribution, you control your image.
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Business Control Distribution Reputation Yourself
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
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
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
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
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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Art Business Creative Design Enough Management Process Production Rational
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
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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Business Childhood Creativity Enjoyment Entrepreneur Myself Process
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

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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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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