Ettore Bugatti Quotes
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I have decided to create a new breed of light car…
Ettore Bugatti
Freed forever from that great source of expense… weight.
Ettore Bugatti
The six-cylinder must be abandoned for racing purposes on account of the inherent difficulties in balancing it… Rolls-Royce… could get better results… by the use of eight cylinders in line.
Ettore Bugatti
I intend taking it on a long journey…
Ettore Bugatti
When you want some gloves, you don’t go and buy mittens. Why shouldn’t it be the same with shoes?
Ettore Bugatti
Create a double chandelier for it.
Ettore Bugatti
I expect to be able to lunch or dine at any hour of the day.
Ettore Bugatti
[On a customer of a Type 46 insisting that his new Type 46 Bugatti was not running properly] You, monsieur, I think, are the one who has brought his Type 46 back three times? [The man confirmed he certainly had.] Do not, let it happen again!
Ettore Bugatti
[When an electricity company supplying him asked for payment in what he considered a rude way he built his own power station on the factory grounds and then called an officer of the electricity company to show him through his newly constructed plant and said] I did not like the tone of your letter of some months back, and as you see, I should have no further need for your company’s services. Good day.
Ettore Bugatti
[On his Italian birth, during the war despite having spent practically all his working life in French and considering himself a Frenchman] That accident.
Ettore Bugatti
Fastest on the road, fastest on rail! What about the sea?
Ettore Bugatti
[On gears clicking as it gained speed in one Bugatti Series that annoyed drivers] That’s the way it should be!
Ettore Bugatti
[On Delahaye which had been an automaker since 1895 asking him in 1930 about his advice on their cars when the company was faltering] Delahaye cars lack speed and are as heavy as the company fire trucks!
Ettore Bugatti
In order to explain the strange development of my career I must first describe my environment during my childhood and what my life was like as a youth.
Ettore Bugatti
[On Rembrandt Bugatti] My brother suddenly took to drawing. I saw at once, and confided to my dear mother, that he was the true Bugatti and would soon be far better than I, in spite of my studies.
Ettore Bugatti
[In their early days] Rembrandt wanted to be an engineer and build locomotives. I wanted to be an artist, but I was no more gifted to art than he was for mechanics.
Ettore Bugatti
[When he was sixteen] One day, some friends of my father asked me to try out a motor tricycle which had been built a year after the appearance of the De Dion tricycle. It had been made by the firm of Prinetti and Stucchi. In a short while, just by looking at the machine, I had grasped all the intricacies of its mechanism.
Ettore Bugatti
Without knowing anything about its construction. Signor Stucchi, seeing that I was interested in this means of locomotion, asked my father to allow me to go to his factory. This was granted.
Ettore Bugatti
[As a sixteen year old after going through the motor tricycle factory he wanted to stop his artistic education at Brera Academy and join Prinetti and Stucchi as an ‘unpaid apprentice’. I] Had some difficulty in making my father understand.
Ettore Bugatti
[On working in the Prinetti and Stucchi workshop in 1898. It was a time] When people were awakening to the possibilities of self-propelled vehicles.
Ettore Bugatti
[On him entering his tricycle in 1899 in the Turin-Pinerolo-Turin race over a distance of 90km against forty one other racers] The best of these races, the one which gave me most satisfaction… I beat Gaste and Rigal who had come from Paris to beat me. Even before the start, I was sure of winning.
Ettore Bugatti
[On the Paris-Bordeaux race in 1899] Running second [in his class], twenty minutes behind Osmont, when I ran out of petrol and had to give up (damaged fuel tank).
Ettore Bugatti
[On developing Prinetti and Stucchi products despite his hectic racing programme] I was studying the different types of engines being used at the time, examining their qualities and discussing their defects. And I determined to build a car of my own. As soon as I obtained permission, I designed it and got it built. The car was quite small but had four [rear-mounted] engines – two in front and two behind the rear axle.
Ettore Bugatti
[On taking the successful concept of his twin-engined tricycle to an illogical conclusion by doubling up the number of its single-cylinder units.] Not happy with it.
Ettore Bugatti
[On recognising the limitations of his four-engined concept] Decided to build a second car. But Prinetti and Stucchi refused to have it made, saying that they intended to concentrate on the manufacture of cycle-cars.
Ettore Bugatti
[On leaving Prinetti and Stucchi in 1900. I had] Time to reflect and think over my projects, and I suddenly found that I was left to my own devices. (The same thing happened several times in later life.)
Ettore Bugatti
[On working for three years with Prinetti and Stucchi he was] Taught how to use materials to the best advantage by a kindly man who saw everything very clearly, and his advice was the best teaching I could have had… I often thought to myself that he was full of years and experience, and how happy I should be if I could ever know as much as he did…
Ettore Bugatti
[When he left Prinetti and Stucchi at the age of 19] I had realized that by then I was completely taken by mechanics, in which I could clearly see such imperfections.
Ettore Bugatti
[After he had ended his connection with Prinetti and Stucchi] Decided to get down to designing my car first, and to plan the assembly of it later.
Ettore Bugatti
[In 1901 on Bugatti teaming up with the brothers Counts Gulinelli to build what would have been ‘Bugatti-Gulinelli’s] This fine project had to be shelved, because of the death of one of the Gulinellis.
Ettore Bugatti
[In 1902 on an individual at De Dietrich company] Very interested in my ideas and construction. He said that Baron de Dietrich would like to see the car, and he asked me if I felt inclined to go to Niederbronn. The idea and the journey appealed to me – to travel through Switzerland and see new regions. I set off without any passports or papers – travel was free of all formalities in those happy days.
Ettore Bugatti
[On signing a contact between De Dietrich (one of France’s oldest industrial enterprises at the time) and Bugatti dated the 26 June 1902] The agreement we made… this morning.
Ettore Bugatti
[At the age of 20 on receiving from De Dietrich] 25,000 to 30,000fr [996 to 1,195 pounds] when I handed over my designs… I drew satisfaction through being able to support myself without anyone’s help… Without being on the staff of some firms and paid for my works as I did it, and I found satisfaction in receiving a sum of money for a completed job of work which had given me pleasure to think out and do – which had even been fun to do – and which left me free at the end of it.
Ettore Bugatti
[On having been prevented from participating in a race dubbed ‘The Race of Death’] I am externally grateful… because the car’s brakes were merely symbolic and had I participated in the race, I would have come to no good end.
Ettore Bugatti
I arranged with E.E.C. Mathis to purchase a number of German De Dietrich cars… I had no difficulty in disposing of these to clients who wanted early delivery and, in addition, the… Bugatti-De Dietrich gave a better performance than the French model.
Ettore Bugatti
I changed tactics and dropped light cars in order to make big ones.
Ettore Bugatti
I took with me, to this factory, the draughtsmen who were in my employ and the mechanics who had assembled the model.
Ettore Bugatti
[On joining the Deutz payroll in 1906-1907] For the first time… I agreed to take an appointment with a firm, while being remunerated by the royalties I received for the production of my car under licence. [But] Retained the right to work independently on other projects in which I might become interested.
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[In 1909 on a Type 10] The little car is finished and is marvellous!
Ettore Bugatti
[On talking to Ernest Friderich on leaving Deutz in 1909] I resigned from the firm and intended to returning to Alsace.
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