Bernard Arnault Quotes

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe.

Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.

Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

A lot of entrepreneurship is seeing the future in a way that no one else sees it. Then, it becomes about execution and doing what it takes to succeed.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

Founders are exceptional, and they all want to go back to creating. And I feel privileged to be able to do that.

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.