Top 26 Pinault Quotes
#1. My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
Francois Pinault
#2. There's a strength to being able to look at products through a customer's eyes, but it is also dangerous.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#3. The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.
Francois Pinault
#4. As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.
Connie Mack IV
#7. I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.
Glenn Gould
#9. I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. There's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.
Jeremy Irons
#11. As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
William Hazlitt
#12. Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#13. Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#14. They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.
Steven Tyler
#15. I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#17. It is not very difficult to build world peace. We just have to be kind to each other and treat each other with great care.
Debasish Mridha
#18. In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#19. I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.
Francois Pinault
#21. The first PC that I actually bought myself was a Toshiba Papman in 1985. This model was one of the very first laptops; I remember that it was a revolution at the time!
Francois-Henri Pinault
#22. Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#23. I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#24. The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.
Francois Pinault
