KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Gianni Agnelli Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Gianni Agnelli

Showing 1-9 of 9 Quotes by Gianni 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.

~Gianni Agnelli

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Gianni Agnelli

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

~Gianni Agnelli

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

~Gianni Agnelli

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Gianni Agnelli

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Gianni Agnelli

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Gianni Agnelli

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Gianni Agnelli

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

~Gianni Agnelli

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Businessman

Born: March 12th, 1921

Died: January 24th, 2003

Links

Find Gianni Agnelli on Amazon

Related Authors

Les Brown
Warren Buffett
Stephen Covey
Peter Drucker
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Jim Rohn

Popular Authors

Deepak Chopra Elbert Hubbard Michael Jackson Abraham Maslow John C. Maxwell Jean-Jacques Rousseau Lao Tzu Sun Tzu

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Chance Diet Famous Good Parenting Relationship Trust Work