I try to find people who love and believe in what I do - and people I can respect because they do what I don't do. I've had to bring in financial people and put them in positions where they could tell me, "Ralph, let's not do that."

..It's not about age...I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

I was talking to Donna Karan at an event and she said, "You know, Ralph, I still don't feel rich."

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.

I’ve always been about style for people, not ‘You’re going to wear this outfit,’... It was the way you put yourself together and the imagination, not buying this number off the rack, but the way you wear it

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.