Brunello Cucinelli Quotes

Mankind is becoming more ethical, but it is not happening because man has decided to become better than he was 100 years ago. It’s because we know we live in a glass house where everybody can see.

I nearly always wear almost the very same things. But I alter the combinations slightly.

We have now swapped information for knowledge, which is not the same thing. I do not want to know.

Since the very beginning, I have had this dream of living and working for the dignity of mankind.

...there is no accessible luxury. There is no aspirational luxury. It’s either luxury or not luxury.

I'm 65; I couldn't just wear a normal suit, a nice shirt and tie. Because I don't want to look that old - I want to look at least 10 years younger.

It is never challenging when you only do one thing in life. It is difficult to do everything, but if you specialise in one thing, you can focus with your head bent over one single thing the whole day and you have less likelihood of getting things wrong.

We must start from the joy of life, from respect, from humanity, because the most important thing in life is having respect for other people. Especially for those who might think very differently from you.

I have 5,000 books in my home, 1,000 of which I feel are close to my heart. They have always shown me the way. Books are my great passion; I could not live without them.

...every human being has an amount of genius in them.

Our soul needs to be fed on a daily basis too, as much as the body and the mind.

Man needs dignity even more than he needs bread.

In the winter on a Sunday afternoon, I can spend six hours in front of the fireplace, just looking at the flames and thinking. In the evening, I’m drunk with beautiful thoughts. My wife says to me, ‘What are you looking at?’ I say, ‘The fire.’ We have to take a step backward.

If you have 1,000 people, you have 1,000 geniuses. They’re just different kinds of genius and a different degree of intensity.

Do you think that during the first five hours of the day you are the same as you are in the last five hours? No way. You’re tired, and if you’re tired, you stop listening, and the decisions you make are risky.