Andre Balazs Quotes

United States, Businessman
January 31, 1957

André Tomes Balazs (born January 31, 1957) is the president and CEO of André Balazs Properties that includes a portfolio of hotels across the United States and residences in New York, especially in New York City.

Also known as Chief Executive Officer

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

Andre Balazs
- Water
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

Andre Balazs

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Andre Balazs
- Travel
All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

Andre Balazs
- People
- Good
- Home
I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

Andre Balazs
- World
I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

Andre Balazs
- Good
- Business
- True
Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

Andre Balazs
- Feeling
- Water
I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

Andre Balazs
- Up
- Time
- Together