John Elkann Quotes
I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
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God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
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I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'
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My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.
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I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.
