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Lapo Elkann
Italian Businessman
Born: Oct 7, 1977
Am Love Made People World You
Related authors: Ernesto Bertarelli Gianni Agnelli Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Marco Bizzarri Pier Luigi Loro Piana Renzo Rosso Sergio Marchionne Silvio Scaglia
You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street. Lapo Elkann
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I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down. Lapo Elkann
People Will Arrogant Down Bad Something More Make Him Learned Effort Want Happens Succeed Bring
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. Lapo Elkann
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man. Lapo Elkann
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste. Lapo Elkann
Work Fashion Man World Try Style Considered Rules Follow Like Call Industry Because Taste
If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit. Lapo Elkann
Life You World Style Lunch Think Elsewhere Everyone Bit Bad Eat Bad One Tend Envies Italy Stop Sandwich Unique
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. Lapo Elkann
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Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector. Lapo Elkann
Luxury Market Our Sector Ours Various Supreme Foreign Italy Up Which Manufacturing Even Reigns Buttons Buying Jewels
The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world. Lapo Elkann
World Value Made Extreme Philosophy Independent Ourselves Must Embraced Outset Stereotypes Italy Up-To-Date Decided Pace Incessant Away Necessarily
I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness. Lapo Elkann
Energy Favorite City Rio London Paris Toughness New York So Much Energy New York Much Lived
London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with. Lapo Elkann
Out London Girlfriend Like Fell Loved Then Really
I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in. Lapo Elkann
Complicated Country Difficult Think Complex Like Make Italian Happen Things Things Happen
I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here. Lapo Elkann
Try Car Not Talking Biscuits Sexy About Talking Because Them Here Need
I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system. Lapo Elkann
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I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go. Lapo Elkann
Love Say Am Go Italy Wherever
I am in love with cars; I love anything that moves. Lapo Elkann
Love Car Am Moves Anything
I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.' Lapo Elkann
Music You Listening Way Say Only Driving Like How
I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather with a pair of Tsubi jeans or wear a favorite pin-striped suit from him for more formal occasions. I'm crazy about pinstripes and vintage fifties fabrics. Lapo Elkann
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way. Lapo Elkann
Buy Me Made Sleeves Mine Way Fold Something More Tailor Like Annoys Make Go Imposed Up Jacket Modern Often Things Need Sicilian Suit
'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of. Lapo Elkann
Me People Made Part Feel Italy Represent Which Who Belong
I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer. Lapo Elkann
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas. Lapo Elkann
Old Independent Factory Ideas Office Milan Companies Including Here
I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself. Lapo Elkann
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