Ralph Lauren Quotes

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers.

Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.

My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves

Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.

Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.

What I do is about living. It's about living the best life you can and enjoying the fullness of the life around you- from what you wear, to the way you live, to the way you love.

Personal style is about a sense of yourself, a sense of what you believe in and wearing what you like.

Enjoy your family. Do things that you like to do. Stay strong. That's the secret to remaining happy.

Glamour is an attitude-it's the expression of a certain kind of confidence. A glamorous woman is always elegant, but she also possesses an air of mystery and excitement. She's dramatic-almost untouchable.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself

I'm interested in longevity, timelessness, style - not fashion.

For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.

Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.

I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.

Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.

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."

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

I believe in style, not fashion.

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 you're doing.

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

It’s easier to follow fashion than it is to have personal style.

Black is not as good as Purple.

When you think of the blur of all the brands that are out there, the ones you believe in and the ones you remember, like Chanel and Armani, are the ones that stand for something. Fashion is about establishing an image that consumers can adapt to their own individuality. And it's an image that can change, that can evolve. It doesn't reinvent itself every two years.

You have to create something from nothing.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.

Success isn't based on 'look what I can do!' but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something to say in your own consistent way. And I think we all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."

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.

I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in.

I've never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you're in fashion, you're going to be out of fashion.

My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.

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.

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

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.

I'm a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do and that are not into the showbiz.

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.

I don't like the word ['classic']. It makes you think we didn't do any work.

For me accessories create and define a woman's personal style. The bag she carries, the watch on her wrist, her jewelry, her sunglasses, her shoes all define a look that is her signature. For Spring 2014, my accessory collections are about a clean, graphic boldness creating a new dimension redefining modern classics.

We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

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.