Words matter. These are the best Brunello Cucinelli Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt… and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination.
Yes, I was a hippy – absolutely a hippy.
I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!
For forty years, I’ve worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.
Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.
I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It’s my dream.
There is definitely a comeback of the idea of dressing well every day. Nowadays, suits can be worn for many occasions – to work or to school, to a dinner party or red carpet event.
In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I’m taking phone calls. He’s one of the many philosophers I’ve always read and admired.
I am very rigorous with myself.
I tell my staff, ‘Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.’ I’ve never asked anyone to work harder, but I’ve told plenty that they needed rest.
These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general.
To me, the simplest things can have the highest value.
When someone says, ‘Shut up, farmer,’ it hurts. It’s difficult to explain, but it hurts.
When I was eight, nine years of age, my mother bought me a pair of green trousers – corduroy green trousers. I didn’t like green, and I basically buried them underground. And my mother kept asking me, ‘Where are your trousers?’ I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know.’ And from then on I stopped wearing green.
I’ve spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that’s my business; I can do it. But I don’t live for it.
The whole idea of wearing clothes is not to look ridiculous.
I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.
If you buy a sweater for €1,000 and you know that the funds you are paying are also going to help to build a hospital and a school, wouldn’t you think better about it?
To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.
If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative; maybe you will want to work more.
I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don’t care how important they are, you should feed them the essence of Italian culture: spaghetti, bread and olive oil.
