Levi Strauss quotes

Levi Strauss was a German-American businessman, best remembered as the founder of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His innovation in creating durable denim work pants transformed the fashion industry and became a symbol of American culture. He built a legacy as a pioneer in clothing and entrepreneurship. Here are 5 of his quotes:

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Levi Strauss

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Levi Strauss

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.

Levi Strauss

Gifts make slaves.

Levi Strauss