Giovanni Agnelli Quotes

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

  Giovanni Agnelli

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• And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

  Giovanni Agnelli

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  Tags in Heavily, Marshall, Necessity, Planning

• And I don’t say that we didn’t expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

  Giovanni Agnelli

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  Tags in Generosity, Surprised, Marshall, Planning

• All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of ’38, ’39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

  Giovanni Agnelli

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  Tags in Infinitely, Instance, Stable

• And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, ‘cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

  Giovanni Agnelli

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  Tags in Machinery, Mentioned

• Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

  Giovanni Agnelli

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• The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

  Giovanni Agnelli

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• Now between ’45 and ’48, things would change enormously, ‘cos we’d had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

  Giovanni Agnelli

  Tags in Credit, Bank, Enormously

• Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let’s say, instruments for working.

  Giovanni Agnelli

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• I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it’s enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

  Giovanni Agnelli

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• 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 us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

  Giovanni Agnelli

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Recession, Europe

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

  Giovanni Agnelli

  Topics in Luck

Giovanni Agnelli (13)

Birth:	13th August, 1866
Death:	16th December, 1945
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Entrepreneur

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