Ettore Bugatti Quotes

100 Ettore Bugatti Quotes (Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti 1881-1947)

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Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.
Ettore Bugatti

[On one of his customers complaining that his Type 55 Bugatti was hard to start on cold mornings] My dear man, if you can afford a Type 55, you can certainly afford a heated garage!
Ettore Bugatti

[His philosophy for Bugatti cars] Pure blood, absolute clarity, predominance of purpose, immaculate shape.
Ettore Bugatti

No driver was ever killed, or even injured, though the failure of a Bugatti part.
Ettore Bugatti

[On brakes being practically non-existent on this cars] I make cars to go. Not to stop.
Ettore Bugatti

Just by looking at the machine, I had grasped all the intricacies of its mechanism.
Ettore Bugatti

People were awakening to the possibilities of self-propelled vehicles.
Ettore Bugatti

Even before the start, I was sure of winning.
Ettore Bugatti

Perfection is never reached. Yet the Royale must rank close to supercar perfection.
Ettore Bugatti

I have never considered it necessary to publish a catalogue.
Ettore Bugatti



I build the cars I like. If people wished to buy them, well, that could possibly be arranged.
Ettore Bugatti

I determined to build a car of my own.
Ettore Bugatti

I designed it and got it built.
Ettore Bugatti

I built a new model which went into series production for a few years at the oldest metallurgic factory in Alsace-Lorraine, which thus became one of the first automobile factories in the world.
Ettore Bugatti

The car’s brakes were merely symbolic…
Ettore Bugatti

My refusal to obey the pressing demands of the German authorities to return to Alsace resulted in their taking over the machinery and all the material at Bordeaux and expelling me from the factory.
Ettore Bugatti

[During World War II] The surrender of my factory. This compulsory sale destroyed nearly half a century’s work.
Ettore Bugatti

I should have no further need for your company’s services.
Ettore Bugatti

Perfection is never reached.
Ettore Bugatti

I wanted to be an artist…
Ettore Bugatti



[On his brother] I was no more gifted to art than he was for mechanics.
Ettore Bugatti

Some friends of my father asked me to try out a motor tricycle…
Ettore Bugatti

[On motor tricycles at the age of 16] I was interested in this means of locomotion…
Ettore Bugatti

Making my father understand….
Ettore Bugatti

I beat Gaste and Rigal who had come from Paris to beat me.
Ettore Bugatti

I ran out of petrol and had to give up…
Ettore Bugatti

Prinetti and Stucchi refused to have it made…
Ettore Bugatti

I suddenly found that I was left to my own devices.
Ettore Bugatti

How to use materials to the best advantage…
Ettore Bugatti

[On Prinetti and Stucchi at the age of 16] His advice was the best teaching I could have had…
Ettore Bugatti



I was completely taken by mechanics, in which I could clearly see such imperfections.
Ettore Bugatti

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

The idea… appealed to me – to travel through Switzerland and see new regions.
Ettore Bugatti

[On travelling internationally in 1902] I set off without any passports or papers – travel was free of all formalities in those happy days.
Ettore Bugatti

I drew satisfaction through being able to support myself without anyone’s help…
Ettore Bugatti

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…
Ettore Bugatti

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

I am externally grateful… I would have come to no good end.
Ettore Bugatti

[I] retained the right to work independently
Ettore Bugatti

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.
Ettore Bugatti



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