Bernard Arnault Quotes

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Bernard Arnault

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 5, 1949

Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, 'Don't worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.'

Bernard Arnault

Can you say that in 20 years people would still use the iPhone? Maybe not. Maybe we'd have a new product or something more innovative. What I can say today is that, in 20 years, I'm quite convinced that people will still drink Dom Perignon.

Bernard Arnault

What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don't do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.

Bernard Arnault

Without hesitation, I'm voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.

Bernard Arnault

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

The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.

Bernard Arnault

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

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

Bernard Arnault

What I love is to win. What I love is being number one.

Bernard Arnault

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

Bernard Arnault

Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'

Bernard Arnault

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

When I took over Louis Vuitton, everyone said, 'It's already so big - what more can you do?' And since then, we've multiplied that success tenfold.

Bernard Arnault

Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare - fortunately.

Bernard Arnault

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

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

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

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.

Bernard Arnault

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

I'm more concerned about Marc Jacobs than the U.S. president.

Bernard Arnault