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.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

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.

A good product can last forever.

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.

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

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.