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Real luxury is customization.
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Luxury
Real
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I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
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Catholic
Italian
Jewish
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I am in love with cars; I love anything that moves.
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Moving
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I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.
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Italy
Wherever
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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Legendary
Yankees
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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Ephemeral
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London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
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Funny Girlfriend
Girlfriend
London
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I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.
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Lot
Life My Life Always
Trains
Missed
My Life
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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Gucci
Independent
Special
Edition
Fiat
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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Music
Driving
Way
Like
Only
Music Way Listening
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Say
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I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
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Biscuits
Not Talking
Sexy
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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Italian
I Am Proud Am
Flag
Onto
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A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
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Prepared
Tacky
Wild
Pocket
Square
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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.
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Ideas
Including
Independent
Milan
Office
Companies
Factory
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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Businessman
Centre
Entrepreneur
Freestyle
Stands
Ventures
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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Italian
Things Happen
Complex
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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.
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New York
Cities
Energy
Paris
Rio
Toughness
City Energy New
So Much Energy
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'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.
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Me People Feel
Belong
Italy
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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.
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Cinema
Italian
Underestimated
Love Believe I Believe
Cultural
Important Part
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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Privileged
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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.
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Arrogant
Succeed
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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.
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Elsewhere
Lunch
Bad One
Envies
Italy
Sandwich
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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Grace
Churchill
Winston
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I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.
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Birth
Myth
Italy
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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.
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Taste
Work Man World
Considered
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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Inspiring
Academic
Good World People
Student
Good Student
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No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury.
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Believe
Luxury
Taste
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I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.
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Let Down
Italy
Owe
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Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard or whoever your favourite Savile Row tailor is.
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Clients
Favourite
Ferrari
Visiting
Anderson
Row
Service
Specific
Tailor
Whoever
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Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.
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Assets
Core
Long Way
Steep
Ahead
Brand
Fiat
Italy
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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.
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Buttons
Buying
Jewels
Luxury
Manufacturing
Supreme
Italy
Ours
Reigns
Sector
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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America
Asia
British
Financial
London
Milan
Love Great Look
Capital
Fact
Platform
Whoever
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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.
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Travel
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Professors
School Teachers
Life Always People
Teachers
Cleaner
Street
Just Walking
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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.
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Wisdom
Churchill
Corrupted
Talented
Systems
Winston
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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.
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Sicilian
Sleeves
Annoys
Me Way Go
Fold
Imposed
Jacket
Suit
Tailor
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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.
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Obsessive
Badly
Shift
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The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.
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British
Company
Italian
Motivation
German
Beetle
Engine
Entire
Fiat
Global
Image
Mini
Symbol
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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.
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Formal
Grandfather
Jackets
Jeans
Lucky
Occasions
Vintage
Favorite
Fabrics
Fifties
Wear
Inherited
Mix
Pair
Suit
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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.
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Incessant
Pace
Philosophy
Up To Date
Extreme
Embraced
Italy
Outset
Stereotypes
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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.
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Design
Bronze
Furniture
Given
House
Nobel
Opera
Opera House
Research
Bath
Behind
Fabrics
Immediately
Italians
La
Magazine
Premier
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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.
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Enlightened
Innovative
Inspired
Workers
Entrepreneurs
Fiat
Founder
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In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.
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Envied
Succeed
Waste
Success Time World
Anyone Else
Apologize
End Of The Day
Italy
Worst Thing
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