Ralph Lauren Quotes
100 Ralph Lauren Quotes
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[On having just bought out his original partner Norman Hilton in 1973] I still owe him money, but I’m the sole owner.
Ralph Lauren
We doubled in size… We grew too fast. We didn’t make any money at all…
Ralph Lauren
You really learn who your friends are.
Ralph Lauren
[In 1973] I always stayed away from having family in the business. It usually isn’t a good idea. But I started the business and now I’m bringing them in. It isn’t as if they were in it with me from the start.
Ralph Lauren
[In 1973] We’re very unsocial. We like to go to the movies and eat Italian food.
Ralph Lauren
If you’re good, some people take it as ego or cockiness…
Ralph Lauren
It wasn’t [Coco] Chanel’s clothes I loved, but what she represented – taste and understatement.
Ralph Lauren
[In 1973] I didn’t want to be on Seventh Avenue. Maybe I have to be there someday. But not now.
Ralph Lauren
[To his antiques buyer for the Madison avenue store in 1988] Buy the best. Just go to it.
Ralph Lauren
I am making a commitment to you. I am giving you anybody that you want to talk to.
Ralph Lauren
You can make a statement by how you dress. Clothes are really part of an expression; they make a statement about you. It’s sort of an introduction; it’s not you.
Ralph Lauren
I present a dream. They are worlds you would like to be a part of. In that worldl, you’d wear that kind of thing. I see a whole feeling. I don’t see a pant. Everything is connected to something else. Nothing is apart. I design into living. It’s a lifestyle.
Ralph Lauren
[As a school kid] I had a sense of leadership, a sense of feeling good about what I did… where I was. I sort of felt like I was special but I did not know why. I mean, I had my own mind. I did my own thing. I wore the kind of clothes I wanted to wear when no one was wearing the same clothes. I felt like I was a leader, not a follower. I had a sense of myself.
Ralph Lauren
I think the instinct was sensitive individuality. I had a lot of friends, but I was always individual, I was always very sensitive.
Ralph Lauren
[After changing his name from Lifshitz to Lauren eighteen months earlier before being drafted in December 30, 1960] First guy I sat down next to – from the reception center, I got on the bus – and the guy was from somewhere in Pennsylvania and his name was Lifshitz, and I watched him get hazed by guys all the time.
Ralph Lauren
[On being in the Army] You have no face, you’re not a person, you’re a robot… I wear khaki, I love army clothes.
Ralph Lauren
[On wishing both his sons were working alongside him in his core Polo business] I would like them to be here, but I know what it’s like to want to do your own thing. I had to beg David [Lauren] to come in. He wants to be David. He says ‘I don’t want to be Ralph’.
Ralph Lauren
We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you’re doing is in the doing of it. It’s not what you’re gonna get in the end – it’s not the final curtain – it’s really in the doing it, and loving what I’m doing. That’s my high. What’s next? I don’t know. I’m just doing it.
Ralph Lauren
I came from nowhere. I had nothing.
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That’s Ralph Lauren. I wish I were him.
Ralph Lauren
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