Gianni Agnelli Professions : Industrialist Born : March 12, 1921 Died : January 24, 2003 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by Gianni Agnelli There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them Gianni Agnelli talking men 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. Gianni Agnelli united-states america people The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. Gianni Agnelli construction factories workplace 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. Gianni Agnelli political cities war 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. Gianni Agnelli say first year food 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. Gianni Agnelli behind whatever technology war 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. Gianni Agnelli say see moment generosity 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. Gianni Agnelli only new back technology 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. Gianni Agnelli new something like enough Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that. Gianni Agnelli moment party strong doubt Similar Authors Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. industrialist Henry Ford industrialist Henry J. Kaiser industrialist Henry Flagler industrialist Ferruccio Lamborghini industrialist Lawrence Dale Bell industrialist All Authors
