The House of Gucci Quotes

“Elegance is like manners,” he used to say. “You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“Every human creature, he used to say, has three essential things that must always be in harmony among themselves: a heart, a brain and a wallet. If these three elements don;t work together, problems will come.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten,” which he”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“She confessed once in a television interview that she would rather “weep in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“The loafer also found its way onto the feet of lawmakers and lobbyists in Washington, D.C., earning the halls of Congress the nickname “Gucci Gulch.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“By treating his staff as extended family, he got their undying commitment and loyalty—a management model common in Italian family-run enterprises.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“During the 1970s, one event dramatically changed Gucci’s ownership structure: Vasco died of lung cancer on May 31, 1974, at the age of sixty-seven. Under Italian inheritance law, his one-third stake in the company passed to his widow, Maria. They had no children. Aldo and Rodolfo proposed to pay her for the shares in order to keep the ownership of the company in the family, and to their relief, she agreed. Aldo and Rodolfo became the sole controlling shareholders of the Gucci empire, with 50 percent each—a shareholding ratio that would profoundly condition Gucci’s future. Rodolfo, still stubbornly pursuing his confrontation with Maurizio, refused to consider sharing company ownership with him, but Aldo felt it was time to bring his boys into the Gucci mother company.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“What you have to understand about the Guccis,” Jenny told a journalist in 1994, “is that they are all completely mad, incredibly manipulative, and not very clever. They have to be in control, but as soon as they get what they want, they crush it! They are destroyers, it’s as simple as that!”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“Since the time of Cain and Abel, family disputes have been marked by the irrational and impulsive decision of those involved, the fierce battles which ensue, and the senseless destruction they cause,”
― Sara G. Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“Da bi se razumjeli Maurizio Gucci i njegova obitelj, potrebno je razumjeti toskanski mentalitet. Drukčiji od srdačnih Emilijanaca, strogih Lombarda ili kaotičnih Rimljana. Toskanci su neovisni i ponosni. Uvjereni kako su izvor kulture i umjetnosti u Italiji, a posebno su ponosni na svoju ulogu u nastanku suvremenog talijanskog jezika, ponajviše zahvaljujući Danteu Alighieriju. Neki ih nazivaju "Francuzima u Italiji" jer su arogantni, sami sebi dostatni i hladni prema drugima.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“It is the kind of fighting where you go in as pigs and come out sausage,”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten,”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“I am just as worthy as the next man,” Onorato would think, “even if he is rich or from an important family.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“In life one must always learn to count to ten.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“average citizen, skeptical and mistrustful of government, feels that paying taxes is tantamount to throwing money at corrupt politicians for little in return. The American saying—only two things in life are certain: death and taxes—”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“The most important thing parents can do for their children, it is said, is love each other.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

“Every human creature,” he used to say, “has three essential things that must always be in harmony among themselves: a heart, a brain, and a wallet. If these three elements don’t work together, problems will come.”
― Sara Gay Forden, The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed