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My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.

I rarely have time for lunch, so tend to have a big breakfast and big dinner.

Why give a million dollars to someone if they have not proved that they can make a million dollars?

So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.

When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.

My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business -...

Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created...

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go...

People need patience. It takes time to build a brand.

I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to...