Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Ian Schrager.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Ian Schrager is an American entrepreneur, hotelier and real estate developer, credited for co-creating the "boutique hotel" category of accommodation. Originally, he gained fame as co-owner and co-founder of Studio 54.
Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
Good design is good business.
I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.
When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
People who are successful simply want it more than people who are not.