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 ARNAULTIf you control your distribution, you control your image.
More Bernard Arnault Quotes
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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 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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Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
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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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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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A good product can last forever.
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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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I take time to get close to, and I don’t immediately throw my arms round someone.
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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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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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From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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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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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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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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