Bernard Arnault Quotes

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

I won't get involved in any business. And my children, they have their own little businesses to take care of

My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there were one-hour photo stores.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

I spent a lot of time in a small town in France, growing up.

I want my kids to have a life like I did growing up. The greatest gift I was given in life was from my parents. Though I can't match them, I'd like to be that kind of parent.

There was a point where I was leaving for California when I was 22. It was a tough decision to make because, at that time, my mother and father both ran a successful chain of women's lingerie stores in metro Detroit. Two were called Bra World, and two were called Lulu's Lingerie. They were great. They did well.

I had two amazing parents, two younger brothers, grandparents, a supportive community. Really loved.

My dad moved to Britain from Bangladesh in the 1960s to work as an actuary for Prudential. However, after seeing an empty retail space in Soho, he decided to open an Asian restaurant instead, despite not having any business experience.

I am an entrepreneur. Beyond that, I am a mother and part of a wonderful family that is part of a wonderful business.

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.

I have worked extraordinarily hard for decades to ensure the success of our family business for all of the Middleton family.

At my parents house, there are three dogs. I've grown up with these four-legged creatures all my life.

From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.

I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house - and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling.

I grew up listening to everybody.

Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother's first child, surrounded by admiring godparents and cousins.

My parents were definitely the biggest influence in my life.