Top 30 Ralph Lauren Quotes

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.

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.’

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

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

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.

My thing was always about individuality and about creating a world – because you don’t just wear clothes, you live a life. You have style. You project who you are.

I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.

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.

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.

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.

Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don’t have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

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

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.

You have to create something from nothing.

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

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

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

I love the challenge of new ideas.

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 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.

A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.

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.

I don’t think women should look like costumes. I don’t think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

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 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.’

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

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.

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.

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.

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