Bernard Arnault Quotes
17 quotes from Bernard Arnault — Chairman & CEO of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods conglomerate (Louis Vuitton, Dior, Moët, Tiffany, etc.)..
“To be successful, you have to have a combination between modernity and timelessness.”
“The success of the group is made of the quality of the product, and the quality of the product is a consequence of the extraordinary craftsmen and women that are working with us.”
“I am very competitive. I always want to win.”
“Try to avoid to invest when everything is too expensive.”
“All that interests me is promoting my brands, never myself.”
“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 to be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.”
“When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.”
“If you control your distribution, you control your image.”
“What I love is being number one.”
“In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.”
“I happened to enter in contact with a group in France that was having problems, business problems. And in this group, there was Christian Dior. And I was interested by business. And I wanted to turn around this group, and build on which I think was at the time the best asset. And the best asset was Christian Dior.”
“In the 90s, I had the idea of a luxury group and at the time I was very much criticized for it. I remember people telling me it doesn't make sense to put together so many brands. And it was a success. It is a recognized success. And for the last 10 years now, every competitor is trying to imitate, which is very rewarding for us. I think they are not successful, but they try.”
“The first time I was in New York, it's in '71. And I remember the first time I arrived, I took a taxi. The taxi driver didn't know the president of France. But he knew Dior.”
“Every morning I have fun when I arrive.”
“I see myself as an ambassador of French heritage and French culture. What we create is emblematic.”
“We don't need to be a group with 50 hotels. We want to concentrate on being the best — to have the best location, the best team, the best interior design, the best architecture. And this takes time. We are not in any rush.”
“He works 24 hours. When he sleeps, he's dreaming of new ideas.”
