Brunello Cucinelli Quotes

I started with nothing and built something, and one day it will finish, and something new will come out of it.

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

Man needs dignity even more than he needs bread.

We need a new form of capitalism, a contemporary form of capitalism. I would like to add “humanistic” to that equation.

I myself can wear joggers, a good pair of sneakers, then maybe a sweatshirt, and on top of it all, a blazer. That's what makes a difference in luxury terms.

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.

So you do need to make a plan for the next three or 30 years, but also the next 300 or 3,000 years.

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.

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.

But with a phone call I can understand your mood, your emotions. With an email I can’t. When speaking I can understand if you have a problem in an instant. I understand your fear. But I can begin to cultivate a hope with you.

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've always been quite fair in complexion. If I wear green, it does not suit me. It's one of these things in life that I cannot explain. It just is.

Dignity generates responsibility, responsibility generates creativity.

If you are a dickhead you will still be a dickhead after tertiary education.

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