Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault
Bernard Jean Étienne Arnaultis a French business magnate, investor and art collector. He is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LVMH since 1989. In March 2015, Forbes estimated his wealth to be $37 billion, making him the 14th richest person in the world and the second richest in France...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 March 1949
CityRoubaix, France
CountryFrance
numbers buying population
China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .
business creativity successful
I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.
design creative management
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.
distribution ifs
If you control your distribution, you control your image.
luxury heritage
In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
business diminish greater rarer work
I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.
capacity deliver fantastic good growing market
We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.
beers brand growing heart jewelry
The De Beers brand will be at the heart of our growing jewelry activities.
european growth hasty increases interest rates worries
What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification.
agreement extremely open serious
We will go there with an extremely open mind. If they are really serious . . . we should be able to find an agreement without too much difficulty.
activity coming five luxury
In the coming five years, there'll be activity in the luxury world and we'll be there,
confirm growth objective point time
I can confirm our objective is for very significant growth this year. This is the first time that we have done this at this point in the year, which demonstrates our confidence.
regret investment made
I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.
thinking dna appreciate
If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.