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9 quotes by Gianni Agnelli

Giovanni Agnelli (12 March 1921 – 24 January 2003), better known as Gianni Agnelli (Italian: [ˈdʒanni aɲˈɲɛlli]), was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research. He was the richest man in modern Italian history. As a public figure, Agnelli was also known worldwide for his...
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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... →

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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