Calvin Klein

“The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.”

“I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.”

“When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.”

“There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion they're not afraid of it.”

“People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.”

“No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.”

“I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.”

“I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs it was about sexual freedom.”

“People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.”

“What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!”

“Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.”

“I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.”

“We're not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.”

“I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.”

“I don't trust a lot of journalists.”

“I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.”

“Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.”