Always Quote by Diane von Furstenberg

No matter how bleak the situation into which we have been thrown by the global economy, it does offer opportunities. Designers need only invent…

— Debbie Millman

The economy made me focus on designing more must-haves.

— Tracy Reese

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

— Ralf Speth

When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you…

— Cameron Sinclair

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

— Fred Brooks

The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.

— Matt Hancock

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

— John Doerr

In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.

— Gerry McGovern

Design, by definition, is an eco-friendly activity, as its aim is to create objects which are meaningful and durable. Trends always cost resources, but…

— Marcel Wanders

Good design doesn't cost, but it pays.

— Richard Driehaus

Good design is serious business.

— Alan G. Lafley

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs…

— Gianfranco Frattini