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40 published records
01 / belief
“I think that actually might be the strategy today. Back then with the 166, there was demand for a lot more than 101.”
02 / belief
“I think we got to scope it to companies that make products that are nominally available for purchase by consumers, but yes.”
03 / uncertainty
“I don't know enough to say, but I would suspect it's probably about as healthy as you can be.”
04 / belief
“Luca does, but he goes day to day to Turin and kinda closer to the Agnelli empire. And I think Enzo thinks that he's gonna still have a spy now in Fiat with Luca, which maybe he does, maybe he doesn't.”
05 / belief
“Now, legends would say later, and Luigi, I think, would probably perpetuate this himself, that Luigi is the one who convinced Enzo to abandon the machine tools business and focus only on cars again after World War II.”
06 / observation
“Now, Porsche, on the other hand, China was 33% of their deliveries a few years ago. Which has collapsed all the way to 15% and continues to fall.”
07 / belief
“Sergio gets them out of the partnership and engineers GM paying $2 billion to Fiat in order to end the partnership. And I think without that $2 billion, the company almost certainly would have died.”
08 / commitment
“I'm not sure I totally agree with the distinction, but a thing that I will say is you go to Paris to absorb the history and look at the fine museums, and you go to Italy to feel something.”
09 / belief
“In fact, I think most people who own Ferraris own other cars and want to keep adding other cars.”
10 / belief
“Lamborghini actually canceled theirs and has switched it to a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle instead. And I think the point I keep kicking around is, much like the quartz crisis in the world of watches, speed is no longer relevant.”
11 / belief
“I mean, the cost, the investment that I think most people don't realize to staff the full infrastructure is crazy.”
12 / commitment
“S. and around the world, as we will soon get to from those early days. And behind any company operating at that scale, there is a massive engine orchestrating money movement behind the scenes.”
13 / belief
“I think that is largely correct. It is interesting for all the people who complain, oh, you know, that model was crappy or this strategy was crap.”
14 / belief
“I mean, the engineering innovations have always appealed to a set of people, but this is a whole different universe of engineering. Here's one that I think is really cool.”
15 / belief
“The big difference here being that Ferrari is much sort of flashier than Patek is as a brand, and they also have the Tifosi, which adds this whole different element to it. So to directly answer your question, I think branding shows up more in luxury watches than it does in luxury cars for the— almost like the lack of experienceable intrinsic product characteristics, that it's just hard to experience the product in a Porsche, but it's easy to experience the product differences in a car.”
16 / belief
“I think Luca probably had zero interest in taking Ferrari public, and I think he had even less than zero interest in using proceeds from the Ferrari IPO and the other financial engineering that we're about to talk about to save Chrysler and Fiat.”
17 / commitment
“The shield reflects his intention to do battle on the racetrack, and the Italian colors reflect the ultimate ambition to establish this team, this company, and its future cars as the Italian national team, and sports car company. So in our research, I spoke to Luca di Montezemolo, the legendary Ferrari chairman who would ultimately succeed Enzo, and really in many ways be his heir, as we will tell in this story.”
18 / belief
“Making it announced to Wall Street like, oh, hey, we think the right thing to do next year is to cut our production by half.”
19 / uncertainty
“I don't know. Everyone involved in these stories is long dead. It could be some of column A and some of column B.”
20 / belief
“I think so. Or at least he started it. It was really important to him that the factories be first rate.”
21 / observation
“Dealers do, however, play a huge role in the secondary market, and Ferrari knows it's in their interest to have a thriving secondary market since, given how few new cars there are, the entry-level Ferrari is really a used Ferrari. And so it's the way to sort of cultivate the next generation of owners.”
22 / commitment
“In May of 1963, he goes to his lieutenants and he says, we will go to Le Mans and beat his ass.”
23 / belief
“I would never actually want to get behind the wheel of it, but I think I gotta go with the F40.”
24 / belief
“A former, I believe, physicist. Or at least physics undergrad who ended up going into semiconductors.”
25 / belief
“Luca goes out and recruits the dream team. I think the greatest set of F1 team members that had ever existed in history.”
26 / commitment
“Fiat announces to Wall Street as part of the merger, though, Sergio does, hey, we've got a plan. And we are going to reduce that from over $11 billion to $1 billion or less over the next 4 years by 2018.”
27 / belief
“Ben: It's funny, David, you know this, but I talked with the CEO Benedetto Vigna yesterday and he told me, we don't sell a car, we sell a dream. And I think that's an old Porsche line.”
28 / belief
“I think the really interesting thing to look at is how the Ferrari model range has evolved in the years since the IPO.”
29 / commitment
“Oh, yes, we will. So then the next year, Luigi Canetti, he's a real believer in the potential of these machines that Enzo is building to make a lot of money and generate a lot of desire.”
30 / belief
“The LaFerrari Halo car was the first fully in-house designed Ferrari. And during those 61 years, I believe every single road-going production Ferrari except for one, I think, was designed by Pininfarina.”
31 / evaluation
“Which means, David, that Ferrari has the highest ratio of people who know about their products to people who actually own their products of any company in human history.”
32 / commitment
“I bought the luggage first, long before they sent it. And they sent it because I got a lot more luggage because we used it as a carve-out, right?”
33 / preference
“Sometimes I get tricked by Instagram, as my wife says, where I'm scrolling through and then I find like the perfect ad hitting me at the perfect moment for some product I didn't even know I needed. This pair of scissors, the ad is great because it says, how come your scissors are like some flimsy sheet metal?”
34 / commitment
“So, after Dino's death, Enzo stops going to races. It's sort of like a self-inflicted punishment that You know, if Dino can't be here with me to go to the races, then I will no longer travel to and go to the races, to my great, terrible joys.”
35 / evaluation
“I think I would posit that there are no other Ferraris because of the continuity.”
36 / prediction
“I would bet they have the lowest hours of use per car of any manufacturer in the world who produces at least, I don't know, draw a hard cutoff, 5,000 cars a year.”
37 / prediction
“Enzo really wanted to do this deal, and I think he determined at this point in history— I've not seen this written anywhere, but I'm reading into this, you know, even Ford thought it was worth somewhere between $10 and $18 million earlier in the decade.”
38 / prediction
“Because the supercar that we had talked about, the F40, the F50, the Enzo, the LaFerrari, and now the F80, these are not being made all the time.”
39 / preference
“I think my favorite thing about Ferrari is the manufacturing process, and it's both because of how cool it is from a nerdy perspective, but also the business model that enables for them.”
40 / prediction
“I believe 35% of people who are buying the lifestyle merchandise they're creating are women.”