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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.

BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

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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.

BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

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At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in the north; the Italians would behave like Germans. They didn't. Instead, northern Europe fell into subsidizing southern Euro

EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

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England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

Robert Browning

PoetBritish1812 · 19th century

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I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

Silvio Berlusconi

PoliticianItalian1936 · 20th century

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I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the winter. I don't like big towns.

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Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

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I speak for all Italian industry that India is number one priority for us.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

3.6 · 50 votes · 200 reads

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I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

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Ennio Morricone

MusicianItalian1928 · 20th century

3.9 · 45 votes · 149 reads

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India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language to be in touch. Then India's industrial situation is similar to us. Both have big companies but are dominated by small and medium-sized

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

3.2 · 43 votes · 107 reads

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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.

BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

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Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century
4.6 · 45 votes · 157 reads
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Let's make it clear: it's Ferrari I'm interested in. Drivers, we've had a lot, some very good, some great, but drivers come and go, while Ferrari remains.
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century
3.6 · 29 votes · 137 reads
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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
BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century
4.8 · 41 votes · 44 reads
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Only I can turn this country around.
Silvio Berlusconi
PoliticianItalian1936 · 20th century
5.0 · 29 votes · 164 reads
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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Henry Louis Mencken
JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century
3.2 · 64 votes · 48 reads
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The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.
Gianni Agnelli
BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century
4.5 · 56 votes · 14 reads
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The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
Silvio Berlusconi
PoliticianItalian1936 · 20th century
4.7 · 5 votes · 68 reads
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We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century
3.1 · 27 votes · 48 reads
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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
BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century
3.4 · 16 votes · 97 reads
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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
BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century
3.9 · 29 votes · 131 reads
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You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
Giuseppe Verdi
MusicianItalian1813 · 19th century
4.7 · 52 votes · 194 reads
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