Giovanni Agnelli Quotes

#1. I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.

Lapo Elkann

#2. 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

#3. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Arthur Bloch

#4. In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#5. As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

Elayne Boosler

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

Giovanni Agnelli

#7. 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

#8. At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

David Wilkerson

#9. If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me ... I guess I like manners.

Taylor Schilling

#11. A crazy man calls himself a king. I call myself Queen of the Nile, but the last time I looked there isn't a crown under my pillow.

Deepak Chopra

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

Giovanni Agnelli

#13. All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue.

Jonathan Swift

#14. I look much more civilized than I actually am.

Georgina Chapman

#15. My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States.

Roberto Benigni

#16. My dad took me to my first movie.

Steven Spielberg

#17. 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

#18. The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

Lord Byron

#19. A certain shoemaker one of the chief towns of Silesia, in the year 1591, September 20, on a Friday betimes in the morning, in the further part of his house, where there was adjoining a little garden, cut his own throat with his shoemaker's knife.

Raymond T. McNally