Quotes from Ralph Lauren

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

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

I loved Cary Grant. I got to know him and Audrey Hepburn. Here were these people I always liked and admired, and they were coming to my house.

A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see-the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see.

Love the fun of clothes, not the status of fashion.

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.

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.

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

I try to make things that are fresh and different, even if they are inspired by classic things.

I'm a big fan of Woody Allen. I used to love the fact that he wrote his own screenplay and acted in the movie.

I had a very nice life. I was a very good kid. I had nice friends. I played in the school yard. I was nice to my parents; they were nice to me. They were loving parents - they were always there.

I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

More than ever I'm proud to be an American, to live in a country that respects the rights of all to marry whomever they love. The Supreme Court decision gives new meaning to the freedoms we cherish.

I always feel like I have to keep going. You can sit back and say, 'Maybe I can stop.' But then you're yesterday, and I love tomorrow.

When you don't do something anymore, all of a sudden everyone treasures it.

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.

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.

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.