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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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Lapo Elkann

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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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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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

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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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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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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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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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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I’m not a middle man.

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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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Lapo Elkann

A pocket square must always – always – be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.

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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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