Top 42 Arnault Quotes
#1. I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because it's part of my journey.
Delphine Arnault
#2. 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.
Bernard Arnault
#3. 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
#4. 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.
Bernard Arnault
#5. It's important to celebrate the monogram. It's the DNA of Vuitton. I think - I hope - there is an interest in the philosophy and culture of the Vuitton name. It's quite coherent and intellectual, and the products are great. These are things you will want to pass on - things you treasure.
Delphine Arnault
#6. I can't imagine myself not working. And I hope my daughter will work when she's older.
Delphine Arnault
#7. Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.
Bernard Arnault
#9. We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.
Bernard Arnault
#10. 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.
Bernard Arnault
#11. It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.
Bernard Arnault
#12. I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.
Delphine Arnault
#14. I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.
Delphine Arnault
#15. 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.
Bernard Arnault
#16. 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.
Bernard Arnault
#17. 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.
Bernard Arnault
#18. I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.
Bernard Arnault
#19. 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.
Bernard Arnault
#20. It's always important to invest in young talents and the talents of tomorrow.
Delphine Arnault
#21. In the States, entrepreneurs inspire a lot of people and are respected for creating jobs. That makes people dream and feel happy for their country.
Delphine Arnault
#22. 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 Arnault
#23. I think it's interesting to speak when you have something to say.
Delphine Arnault
#24. 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.
Bernard Arnault
#25. I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.
Delphine Arnault
#26. 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.
Bernard Arnault
#27. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.
Bernard Arnault
#28. I'm quite discreet. I think I'd rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have something to say. 'Live hidden, and live happy.' Is that the same in English as it is in French?
Delphine Arnault
#29. From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
Bernard Arnault
#30. I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
Bernard Arnault
#31. If you control your distribution, you control your image.
Bernard Arnault
#33. Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.
Bernard Arnault
#34. Affordable luxury - these are two words that don't go together.
Bernard Arnault
#35. In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
Bernard Arnault
#36. Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.
Delphine Arnault
#37. 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.
Bernard Arnault
#38. The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.
Delphine Arnault
#39. You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.
Delphine Arnault
#40. When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.
Delphine Arnault
#41. I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
Bernard Arnault
#42. I think it's a great thing to support fashion and support designers.
Delphine Arnault
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