Latest Ralph Lauren Quotes from Interviews

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• I always had a sense of people and would talk with them. I talk to my doorman. I talk to everybody I work with. I enjoy it. I like being part of a real life. I love dreams. I love glamour. I love being invited to great places. But I don't really care if I go, as long as I'm invited. I get invited to so many things, but I'd rather go have a hamburger or see a movie.

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  Dream, Real, Love Is

• And I'm excited when I find somebody stimulating to talk with. That's one of the great treasures in life.

  Ralph Lauren

  Excited

• What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

  Ralph Lauren

  Enjoy

• I was sometimes embarrassed about making it - people look at you in a different way. You become this rich guy with the house. I wouldn't trade my life for anyone else's, but I've sometimes felt set apart from the people I work with. They think, "You're rich - you don't have problems."

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  Thinking, People, House

• I was talking to Donna Karan at an event and she said, "You know, Ralph, I still don't feel rich."

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  Rich

• Sometimes when I walk into one of my own stores, I look at the display and say, "This looks so good - I want to buy it." Yet other times I walk in and the displays and mannequins will be all wrong, and I don't want to buy anything. When a customer walks into a store, she's looking for inspiration. So I'm tuned in to people, and I care about what they need and who they are.

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  Inspiration, People, Care

• When you're a kid, you think you can jump out the window and be okay. But when you get older, you think, "Wait a minute - I can't fly!"

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  Kids, Thinking, Waiting

• Having success at an early age gave me more of a sense of what's important in life rather than always driving to make it.

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  Important, Age, Driving

• I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim. Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Victim

• If I get to the point where I don't like my clothes, I'm in big trouble.

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  Trouble

• I try to find people who love and believe in what I do - and people I can respect because they do what I don't do. I've had to bring in financial people and put them in positions where they could tell me, "Ralph, let's not do that."

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  Believe, People, Trying

• I never had a preconceived plan. When you go to a movie and watch someone in the role of his or her life, or when the chairman of the board comes into the room wearing a cool look, it remains in your mind. I love Cary Grant because I like the roles he played. I said, "I want to be that guy." I want to be funny, suave, and a good athlete. I don't have to do a focus group to know what people want. I feel it.

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  Athlete, People, Focus

• As a kid, I was always into clothes, but I didn't have the money to buy them. When I'd get my brothers' hand-me-downs, there was an energy in me that made me say, "I want to get my own things, to make my own statement." Somewhere along the line, that energy - coupled with my exposure, through movies, to a world I hadn't known - turned into something.

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  Kids, Energy, World

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• I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing.

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• I didn't have a vision as in, This is where I'm going. I had a vision as in, "This is what I love to do."

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  Vision

• I can drive a certain car one day with great pleasure, and the next day I'll be disappointed that the experience isn't as good as the day before. These cars have moods that change with the weather, or with the driver's own moods.

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  Weather, Next Day, Car

  "5 Questions with Ralph Lauren". Road & Track Interview, www.roadandtrack.com. May 12, 2011.

• As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

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  Dream, Car, Fever

  "5 Questions with Ralph Lauren". Road & Track Interview, www.roadandtrack.com. May 12, 2011.

• Cars are like children: It's hard to say that any one is more special than the other. There are little things about each car that you come to love, whether it's the look, the steering wheel, the way it drives, or even the way it drives differently when you put the top up. They all have identities; they have spirits and characteristics that are truly endearing in some way.

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  Children, Car, Identity

  "5 Questions with Ralph Lauren". Road & Track Interview, www.roadandtrack.com. May 12, 2011.

• My day is pretty much busy. I do 15 million things in the course of a day. I'm holding up I think. I don't know how I look, but I think I'm holding up.

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  Thinking, Looks, Busy

• I like magazines. I love to look at a magazine. But the magazines have got to get better. Everything pushes someone else to get better. So the Internet pushes the magazines.

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  Get Better, Looks, Magazines

• I exercise at the gym with a trainer. I feel it's very healthy, very important - important for everybody. I feel it's good for you. It makes you feel better. It loosens you up a little bit.

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  Feel Better, Exercise, Healthy

• What's interesting about fashion is it's a world, and I think that's what I've done - I've made a contribution and I think I've built a world. The world is beyond just clothes. Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

• I don't think I'm the gift of the world - I just do what I do, and I love it and I've been lucky.

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  Thinking, Lucky, World

  "Exclusive: Ralph Lauren on a Life in Fashion and His Newest Dream". Interview with Dirk Standen, www.vogue.com. September 10, 2014.

• Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.

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  Down And, Come Up, Stomach

• I think I'm very fortunate to be born in America. And lucky to be able to have lived and had the opportunity to do what I want to do.

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  Thinking, Opportunity, America

  "Exclusive: Ralph Lauren on a Life in Fashion and His Newest Dream". Interview with Dirk Standen, www.vogue.com. September 10, 2014.