Bernard Arnault Quotes

I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

Steve Jobs didn't seek solace among minimum wage workers. He sought it from highly educated men and women who understood and shared his focus on growth, technology, and company-building.

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who go and make. And I've always recognized that. So the dreamers are what support our company because they will buy the product that they could make if they wanted to, had time to, or were so inclined to.

My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.

When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there - and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products - and then kept asking the question, 'What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?'

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

I came up with the Enveloper when I was 20 and it took my dad and me several months to develop the initial concept into a working model.

The people who are changing our world are starting from an idea and bringing it all the way through to finished product with the power of their intellect, training, tools and available products.

I understand the highs and lows of building a global business from the ground and taking that initial product idea all the way to the market.

A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.