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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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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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 primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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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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You need the willingness to fail all the time.
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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
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In real life, it's war, and war's not entertainment. War is 'old men lying and young men dying' kind of deal. That's a saying; I didn't make that up.
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We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.
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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.
