Enzo Ferrari
Enzo Ferrari
Enzo Anselmo Ferrari, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRIwas an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. He was widely known as "il Commendatore" or "il Drake". In his final years he was often referred to as "l'Ingegnere" or "il Grande Vecchio"...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth18 February 1898
CountryItaly
Enzo Ferrari quotes about
wheels engines
I build engines and attach wheels to them.
car sells engines
I don'tsell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since something has tohold the engines in.
animated anyone interest leaves life meet outside quite racing stubborn time
I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.
becoming car drive fact
The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.
altogether man whom
It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.
aerodynamics motor-racing motorsports
Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines.
sports sports-cars car
The Jeep is the only true American sports car.
car racing interest-in-life
I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.
running climbing aerodynamics
But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.
critics have-courage
You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.
firsts loser
Second isthe first of the losers.
skins world triumph
There isno triumph or glory in the world that's worth an inch of human skin.
years body ever-after
Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.
real taken holiday
I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.