Ian Schrager Quotes
Born: July 19, 1946
Ian Schrager, the visionary hotelier and co-founder of Studio 54, transformed the art of hospitality by infusing it with the electric pulse of human connection. His philosophy centers on creating spaces where love, spontaneity, and intimacy can flourish—where strangers become confidants and a single glance can spark a story. Schrager understands that true luxury isn’t about opulence, but about the profound warmth of shared experience. His quotes resonate because they strip away pretense, urging us to seek genuine bonds in a world of curated distance. He reminds us that the most sacred architecture is the one built between two souls.
Ian Schrager Quotes (11)
"I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons."
— Ian Schrager"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."
— Ian Schrager"Good design is good business."
— Ian Schrager"Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class."
— Ian Schrager"I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative."
— Ian Schrager"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."
— Ian Schrager"Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually."
— Ian Schrager"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."
— Ian Schrager"The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation."
— Ian Schrager"The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream."
— Ian Schrager"Good design is good business."
— Ian Schrager