Enzo Ferrari Quotes
110 Enzo Ferrari Quotes
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All the innovations learnt from racing experience can find practical application in the normal production models in a relatively short period of time, the smaller output enabling them, in fact, to be introduced much more readily.
Enzo Ferrari
Most of my life, I have concealed myself.
Enzo Ferrari
Most people think I’m hard, but that is because I don’t want people to know me. I consider myself weak and so I put on a kind of mask. I put it on to hide.
Enzo Ferrari
I live a life of constant self-examination. Consideration of the hallucinating fragility of life has taught me to question everything about myself.
Enzo Ferrari
I go every morning to the cemetery to see my son who died 25 years ago. Knowing that a man is nothing dead. It is death which gives him personality.
Enzo Ferrari
[At the age of 80] I don’t believe there is such a thing as happiness. Happiness is never unmixed.
Enzo Ferrari
I have always given the public the least possible about myself.
Enzo Ferrari
I never tell a lie. Liars lead very complex lives and I am simply afraid of getting caught out. So people conclude that I am cunning.
Enzo Ferrari
If I go to see people, they have an opinion of me, ready-made. But if they come here, what they see is also about what I have created.
Enzo Ferrari
Our proverb runs: ‘He who has his health is rich and doesn’t know it.’ You consider the essential fragility of life.
Enzo Ferrari
It is the little things that get me angry. The great traumas are easier: you can always work your way through to reason.
Enzo Ferrari
What we do at Ferrari is elite work.
Enzo Ferrari
I am a promoter of ideas: I have to sell ideas which will then be realized by others.
Enzo Ferrari
I don’t think there’s a car in the world that hasn’t yet been improved by competition, a car which hasn’t been influenced by others.
Enzo Ferrari
There are superb designers working today, but the basic idea, the working out of that idea, the construction of the machine, the finishing of a new idea, is always the work of a team. It is a compendium. A collaborative effort.
Enzo Ferrari
A car maker… must be someone who loves his passion for cars….
Enzo Ferrari
A car maker need be neither an engineer nor a technician. He must be someone who loves his passion for cars and he must be someone who knows a lot about human beings. His job is to harmonize the ambitions of his collaborators.
Enzo Ferrari
I give my collaborators a great trust. Complete trust. That is the only way to see if they merit it. If they are good, they’ll do everything they can to show their gratitude; if they’re not what better way to bring on their mistakes?
Enzo Ferrari
The real Gran Turismo Ferrari is an offshoot of my racing cars.
Enzo Ferrari
The racing cars are our most effective way of making the Ferrari way known, and selling what we produce.
Enzo Ferrari
Of course I have some regrets about my career: I am bitter at my stupidity in not keeping at least one example of all the models we have built since 1940!
Enzo Ferrari
The greatest drivers were distinguished by their supreme ability to handle any kind of situation, any car, any driving condition, any kind of race.
Enzo Ferrari
Nuvolari lived a life of passionate risk, yet he died, humiliated, in hospital: humiliated because he was unable to die in a race.
Enzo Ferrari
A driver today is an athlete out for hire, his mind is on profit.
Enzo Ferrari
The world creates idols only to destroy them. Why? Because the public is avid for emotion.
Enzo Ferrari
I think fundamentally I belong to another time…
Enzo Ferrari
Fear is the ultimate leverage of power.
Enzo Ferrari
Because the constructor remembers all his errors; he knows the paths which have lead nowhere. It takes endless time. It is like a Kafka story: there is this long corridor and all the doors are shut, yet you have to find a way out.
Enzo Ferrari
One should query oneself without defence and without limits. If I am unable to see the defects in the machines I create myself, how can I see properly into myself?
Enzo Ferrari
I am a man who has lived an adventure.
Enzo Ferrari
Bonus Ferrari Quote
Don’t let it get you down. Things always right themselves if you only give them time.
Dino Ferrari [Enzo Ferrari’s son (Alfredino (Alfredo) Ferrari)]
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