John Elkann famous quotes

Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.
-- John Elkann

#Able #Paradox #Situation

I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France, then I studied in Italy. My life was always about being confronted with an environment where you had to adapt.
-- John Elkann

#New York #Brazil #France

(talking about his children) "I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.
-- John Elkann

#Children #Talking #Two

As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect if you end up doing that. That's where I try to spend most of my efforts.
-- John Elkann

#Responsibility #Entrepreneur #Effort

The lesson I have learnt is that when a family and a business function, they function together. You have to have a family that works and a business that works and the two will end up working well alongside.
-- John Elkann

#Two #Together #Lessons

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.
-- John Elkann

#Desperate #Bad Times

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.
-- John Elkann

#Reading #Artist #Way

I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors.
-- John Elkann

#Intelligent #Stronger #Bigs

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

The only people I have been able to use are those who fought

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?