Giovanni Agnelli Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Well, in 1947 ... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. — Giovanni Agnelli

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