Giovanni Agnelli quotes

Giovanni Agnelli was an influential Italian industrialist and designer, best known as a founder of Fiat. His vision and style helped shape Italy’s automotive industry and modern design aesthetics. He became a symbol of Italian innovation, elegance, and entrepreneurship. Here are 16 of his quotes:

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. (Giovanni Agnelli)

I like the wind because you can't buy it.

Giovanni Agnelli

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

Giovanni Agnelli

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Giovanni Agnelli

I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.

Giovanni Agnelli

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.

Giovanni Agnelli

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

Giovanni Agnelli

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

Giovanni Agnelli

Everything is on loan in life-everything.

Giovanni Agnelli

There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman.

Giovanni Agnelli

Doing things without giving the impression of suffering is a question of good manners. (Giovanni Agnelli)

I even believe aesthetics are like ethics. Something that is beautiful is ethical, and unethical things aren't beautiful.

Giovanni Agnelli

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

Giovanni Agnelli

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Giovanni Agnelli

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

Giovanni Agnelli

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Giovanni Agnelli

Giovanni Agnelli

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Occupation: Italian Designer
Born: August 13, 1866
Died: December 16, 1945
Quotes count: 16

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