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
jobs freedom thinking
Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.
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.
inspiration learning thinking
I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.
beers brand growing heart jewelry
The De Beers brand will be at the heart of our growing jewelry activities.
activity coming five luxury
In the coming five years, there'll be activity in the luxury world and we'll be there,
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.
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.
base creation further powerful result
will result in the creation of a powerful base for further development in the sector.
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.
childhood entrepreneur france
Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.
style arms certain
It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.
ideas campaigns new-inventions
I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
new-york creativity organization
Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.