“When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.”

Commercials capture your attention, that’s all.

I couldn’t have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it’s not as if every gay person is a great creator.

Levi’s can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

What we’re doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all!

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I’m like nails. I will kill.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

It seems there’s always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

I’m not a politician and don’t want any part of politics.

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I’m upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

There has been a change in men’s attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they’re not afraid of it.

Some people feel that what we’re doing makes no sense, that it’s just a waste of money. But it’s working.

I think there’s something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend’s T-shirt and underwear.

I don’t always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I’d like to maintain.

The more you think, the more time you have.

We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.