Business Profile: Bernard Arnault

Business Profile: Bernard Arnault

Thoughts on business from the richest person in France and the fourth richest person in the world.

Age: 69

Industry: Luxury products

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LVMH
Chairman of Christian Dior S.A.

Net worth: $75.5 Billions

Forbes 100 greatest business minds 2018

On Work:

“Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, ‘Don’t worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.”

On Organisational Symbols:

“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.”

On Designing:

“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.”

Image: Bernard Arnault at a conference at the Ecole polytechnique, 2017 / Jérémy Barande, under a CC BY-SA 2.0 licence

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