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born 1953 Italy
Brunello Cucinelli (born September 3, 1953 at Castel Rigone) is an Italian luxury creative director and the chief executive of his eponymous made in Italy luxury clothing brand.
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Man needs dignity even more than he needs bread.
Our soul needs to be fed on a daily basis too, as much as the body and the mind.
I started with nothing and built something, and one day it will finish, and something new will come out of it.
While things rest, the world regenerates.
If you are a dickhead you will still be a dickhead after tertiary education.
Dignity generates responsibility, responsibility generates creativity.
I used to always get up at 5 A.M., but now I force myself to stay in bed until 6.
If you have 1,000 people, you have 1,000 geniuses. They’re just different kinds of genius and a different degree of intensity.
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 believe that there are three things in life that you must absolutely do yourself because nobody can do it in your place: keeping fit, following a diet, and accumulating culture.
Since the very beginning, I have had this dream of living and working for the dignity of mankind.
We have now swapped information for knowledge, which is not the same thing. I do not want to know.
I nearly always wear almost the very same things. But I alter the combinations slightly.
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.
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.
We need a new form of capitalism, a contemporary form of capitalism. I would like to add “humanistic” to that equation.
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.
...every human being has an amount of genius in them.
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.
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.
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