I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.
Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.
The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.
Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.
The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds
You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less than 50 characters. There is no reason why you can't build your company the same way. So force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do. Basically take out that red and start eliminating stuff.
I walk into a company office and I can tell often whether I'm gonna invest, as soon as I walk in.
The secret of happiness is freedom.
The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's behavior in that space. I don't know if we know how to change that, but our goal is to make spaces for people rather than people being subservient to spaces.