Ian Schrager

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

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.

Good design is good business.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

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.