Quotes from Sara Gay Forden

Elegance is like manners," he used to say. "You can't be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it's another matter.

What you have to understand about the Guccis," Jenny told a journalist in 1994, "is that they are all completely mad, incredibly manipulative, and not very clever. They have to be in control, but as soon as they get what they want, they crush it! They are destroyers, it's as simple as that!

The loafer also found its way onto the feet of lawmakers and lobbyists in Washington, D.C., earning the halls of Congress the nickname "Gucci Gulch.

She confessed once in a television interview that she would rather "weep in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle.

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten," which he

It is the kind of fighting where you go in as pigs and come out sausage,

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten,

The most important thing parents can do for their children, it is said, is love each other.

average citizen, skeptical and mistrustful of government, feels that paying taxes is tantamount to throwing money at corrupt politicians for little in return. The American saying—only two things in life are certain: death and taxes—

I am just as worthy as the next man," Onorato would think, "even if he is rich or from an important family.

In life one must always learn to count to ten.

By treating his staff as extended family, he got their undying commitment and loyalty—a management model common in Italian family-run enterprises.

Every human creature," he used to say, "has three essential things that must always be in harmony among themselves: a heart, a brain, and a wallet. If these three elements don't work together, problems will come.