Giovanni Agnelli Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Deepak Chopra

#2. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. - Author: Arthur Bloch

#3. In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors. - Author: Lyndon B. Johnson

#4. 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. - Author: Elayne Boosler

#5. I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way. - Author: Giovanni Agnelli

#6. 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. - Author: Lapo Elkann

#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. - Author: Giovanni Agnelli

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

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

#11. 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. - Author: Raymond T. McNally

#12. The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union. - Author: Giovanni Agnelli

#13. Well, in 1947 ... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. - Author: Giovanni Agnelli

#14. 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. - Author: Jonathan Swift

#15. I look much more civilized than I actually am. - Author: Georgina Chapman

#16. My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States. - Author: Roberto Benigni

#17. My dad took me to my first movie. - Author: Steven Spielberg

#18. 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. - Author: Giovanni Agnelli

#19. 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. - Author: Lord Byron