John Elkann Quotes

#1. I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Stephanie Perkins

#2. I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

John Elkann

#3. For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.

George Schaller

#4. Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

John Elkann

#5. ... through medicine it is possible to reach the unreachable - even the ones who most of us forget about or actively try to ignore. This is the power and beauty of our profession.

Matt McCarthy

#6. This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis.

Marin Cilic

#7. The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.

Helen Keller

#8. People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.

Lesley Manville

#9. Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ... with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.

John Elkann

#10. Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Martin Scorsese

#11. The lesson I have learnt is that when a family and a business function, they function together. You have to have a family that works and a business that works and the two will end up working well alongside.

John Elkann

#12. As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect if you end up doing that. That's where I try to spend most of my efforts.

John Elkann

#13. I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors.

John Elkann

#14. (talking about his children) I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.

John Elkann

#15. I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.

John Elkann