Giovanni Agnelli quote: "The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
GIOVANNI AGNELLI

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped u...
GIOVANNI AGNELLI

I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.
GIOVANNI AGNELLI

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the...
GIOVANNI AGNELLI

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was th...
GIANNI AGNELLI

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of th...
GIANNI AGNELLI

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

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, cred...
GIANNI AGNELLI

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw...
GIANNI AGNELLI

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but...
GIANNI AGNELLI

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new techn...
GIANNI AGNELLI

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of ...
GIANNI AGNELLI

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had b...
GIANNI AGNELLI

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the genero...
GIANNI AGNELLI

It's a game of giants. They are the two largest steelmakers in the world, and together, we're talkin...
ROGER AGNELLI

What everyone is searching for today is the scale to reduce costs and improve the ability to compete...
ROGER AGNELLI

When you have mergers and acquisitions that improve the quality of your product, the ability to grow...
ROGER AGNELLI

In reference to prices, what matters are the laws of the market. If the junction of these two groups...
ROGER AGNELLI

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw...
GIANNI AGNELLI

We love because it's the only true adventure.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you sh...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service o...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
GIOVANNI RUFFINI

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One of...
GIOVANNI FALCONE

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
GIOVANNI NICCOLINI

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat
NIKKI GIOVANNI

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person
NIKKI GIOVANNI

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrac...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they g...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy,...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.
GIOVANNI RIBISI

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwin...
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a pho...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous fa...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

I feel I've lost every part of me...there's nothing left but the parts I've given to you. I need you...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so d...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I’ve never had a reason to survive—no reason to question the way things were. I lived because I ...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI

The biggest (growth) at our hotels came from business travelers.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI

They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI

We expect those room rates to increase another 6-8 percent this year.
GIOVANNI ANGELINI

This exquisite property is the culmination of a long search to find the perfect location to launch S...
GIOVANNI ANGELINI

Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic tourist and convention destinations in the United States, provi...
GIOVANNI ANGELINI

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost po...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI

When I have lost all my illusions I search for them
GIOVANNI BOINE

The first priority of all concerned was maintaining operations at Heathrow with 35 percent less fuel...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Airports take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at t...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

On the first or second pitch of the inning, I landed on my (left) heel instead of my toes in the del...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Black love is black wealth
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and w...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without gu...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three p...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick peopl...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I d...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm tak...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I am because someone dreams me; a man who sleeps and dreams and sees me acting, living and moving ...
GIOVANNI PAPINI

If we reach our target of 100 percent for worldwide electronic ticketing in 2007, then the airline i...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

She sounds extremely creative, in that she turned historical figures into mythical figures. Obviousl...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

His headstone said "Free at last, Free at last" - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freed...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Sometimes hypocrisy is found in the least expected places. But always in abundance
GIOVANNI COLLAZO

All that we've had, all that we have, and all that will be ours will be lost. If not during our life...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a ...
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Don't let others change your ways; only better them.
GIOVANNI JOUBERT

I am because someone dreams me; a man who sleeps and dreams and sees me acting, living and moving �...
GIOVANNI PAPINI

You that have said and done consciously or unconsciously good and bad things that you have to people...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO

You are who you are. people can either take it, or leave it. Never should you help people in any way...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

We are filling the planes-and with high load factors-but there is a lot to do before the industry's ...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what t...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can sk...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
GIOVANNI FALCONE

La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

We love because it's the only true adventure
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick peopl...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love
GIOVANNI PAPINI

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with hi...
GIOVANNI FALCONE

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Există ceva dincolo de reprezentare? Cunoașterea e o fereastră demnă de încredere spre real, sa...
GIOVANNI PAPINI

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienc...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowin...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That ma...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

The airline battle to reduce costs, increase yields and improve efficiencies is effective well beyon...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Airlines moved fast after Sept. 11, re-engineering, restructuring. But governments have not played a...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

If one of the partners in a partnership is losing his shirt while the other is counting his money, i...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency ...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Paper costs money...you do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand that up to $3 billion in ...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

We must chase paper out of our business,
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Each dollar added to the price of a barrel of oil adds $1 billion in costs to the industry.
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

A European solution is no solution at all. Unilateral regional efforts will only distract from this ...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

We must continue to evolve to a low-cost industry that provides high-quality, cost-efficient service...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Airports are important industry partners for airlines,
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienc...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

Do as we say, and not as we do
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

If I make the team, I believe there will be a lot of chances for me to pitch.
GIOVANNI CARRARA

I'm ready... as much as I can be. I just missed too many days. You need to face batters, and I didn'...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

I've been leaving every pitch high. I know what I can do against these type of hitters and, right no...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

It's going to be fun. It's my first time to have a chance to represent my country and playing agains...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

It's going to stay here in Venezuela. Everyone knows Venezuela is a baseball powerhouse as the Carib...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

Last night he finally started to act OK. He saw his twin brother, and they started playing right awa...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

I want to thank the Dodgers organization and my teammates for their support and being behind me when...
GIOVANNI CARRARA

Thank God, we hope he's going to be OK,
GIOVANNI CARRARA

Sometimes you need government programs to commercialize some of these efforts.
GIOVANNI CORATOLO

However, we received so many outstanding applications that we are able to honor a broader segment of...
GIOVANNI CORATOLO

Small businesses are the backbone of America's economy, representing more than 99 percent of all emp...
GIOVANNI CORATOLO

Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends.
GIOVANNI GIOLITTI

We're leaving sandbags at the ready. Even though all of them got washed away last time, we're hoping...
GIOVANNI GUERRERA

I thought it was going to flood last night. I was actually surprised it did not flood with the rain ...
GIOVANNI GUERRERA

I don't think we'll ever be really out of danger. It'll flood again, even with the (completion of th...
GIOVANNI GUERRERA

Foreign-born workers do not substitute perfectly for, and therefore do not compete with, most native...
GIOVANNI PERI

The consensus view is that immigration has a negative impact on the real wages of native workers. We...
GIOVANNI PERI

As a consequence, they do not harm wages in law, education and the social sciences, where most nativ...
GIOVANNI PERI

The U.S. is still able to attract very talented immigrants from across the world.
GIOVANNI PERI

We find no evidence that the American-born workers leave the city, but we do find evidence that they...
GIOVANNI PERI

Our work shows that cities with more diversity -- more immigrants -- in the work force exhibit highe...
GIOVANNI PERI

I Love Your Work
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I think Steven Spielberg has first movies! Martin Scorsese has first movies. I don't just jump into ...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally w...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

It's not even the fact that it's a small independent film as much as it is whether it's good and whe...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

He spent four years writing it and he was very at ease on the set. At the same time he really knew w...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I do have a certain technique [that] varies from part to part because everybody is different. But I ...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

Hopefully it will affect somebody and will inspire something. I'm not trying to manipulate what peop...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a ...
GIOVANNI RIBISI

I was sitting on the bench. I envisioned the game that way. I was ready to step onto the field. I kn...
GIOVANNI SAVARESE

In one way yes, in other ways, no. Yes, because it was only three years and I did well. Still, it's ...
GIOVANNI SAVARESE

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains
GIOVANNI RUFFINI

I always say that in addition to being a coach, I'm also a priest. I go to each player's room and sa...
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

That's the only way he knows how to play.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

He has a light leg injury, nothing serious. I think he'll be all right in 24-48 hours.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

We had lot of players leave, lots of new players come and a new coach -- it's a team that has to fin...
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

The team needs a few matches to learn to play together. It's completely normal that the team and the...
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

He scored a great goal. I thought he deserved another. He's young and has plenty of room for improve...
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

We have to stop thinking about Sweden-Denmark. I'm sure they will play normally and honestly.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

We had that little bit of luck we have been missing all season.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

A positive result is essential even if the season is young.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

We'll see how he feels, I'll talk with him and the doctors and then we'll decide.
GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI

Înţelege tot. Eu îl insult şi el mă urăşte. Sau invers" rîdea el.
GIOVANNI ARPINO

Mai tii minte cat visai? Mai visezi?
GIOVANNI ARPINO

Y la cuestión es ésta: la televisión invierte la evolución de lo sensible en inteligible y lo co...
GIOVANNI SARTORI

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Ego Tripping

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and bui...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though m...
NIKKI GIOVANNI

If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face...
GIOVANNI JACOPO CASANOVA

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under thei...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I ha...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in a...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles,...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pas...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manag...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little re...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings,...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my pa...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you h...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Africa is a very dangerous place.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

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