Top 30 Ralph Lauren Quotes

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.

You don’t have to wear a label to be important.

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I’ve also had a lot of terrible things happen.

As a kid, I wore a lot of my older brothers’ hand-me-downs.

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 was never money conscious. I would never have succeeded if I thought I was going to be a millionaire.

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.

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

I always admired Frank Sinatra. He had ups and downs, but he didn’t give up his style. He had what might have been a tough life or character.

I love the challenge of new ideas.

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.’

I know it’s not enjoying my success to do this, but when I see too many Polo shirts, I say to myself, ‘That’s the end of that.’

I don’t like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

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

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.

On one level, there’s an aspirational quality to having a Polo player. On another level, it’s just a great shirt with lots of colors.

I believe in God. I believe in doing the right thing. I believe in helping people if I can.

When you put on something that you really like, you feel like you are that person or the person you want to be.

My philosophy was that I never had focus groups.

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.

A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.

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

You have to create something from nothing.

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 I was growing up, officers in uniform were very impressive to me. They were doing a job. They were protecting our country; they were heroes. When you wear an old military jacket, there’s some sort of connection to those qualities – to being strong, to being tough, to being a warrior.

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.

I think I’ve been happy because I’ve been able to do what I believe in, and on my own terms.

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 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.

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