Ferdinand Alexander Porsche Quotes

101 Ferdinand Alexander Porsche Quotes

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People would pay more attention to what I said, due to the fact that I was the son…
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

If there are technical developments, then you have to incorporate the shape to the new technology, but…
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

My grandfather took these shapes from nature…
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

The headlamps of the [Porsche] 911… look a little like the eyes of the frog…
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

The best shapes are from nature, so why change?
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Automotive design today lacks individuality.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

I was recently approached to redesign a grand piano.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Now we have new materials…
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

To improve design…
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

It had to become a new Porsche…
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A new Porsche that is just as good as or better than the old one…
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

A product that is coherent in form requires no embellishment .
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Design means to me that every designing engineer has the opportunity to become at some stage an artist…
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Every craftsman who can do more than what he is trained to do is an artist.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Good design should be honest.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Off-road cars are strong cars…
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

I could never figure out why…
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Porsche Design austerity demands credibility and be altogether free from excess and exaggeration.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

A good honest design.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche



The best shapes are from nature…
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Bonus:

That is the secret of Porsche. We do things other people cannot.
Helmuth Bott

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche has designed all of the things men consider important. Many of his designs have become classics, which are even displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The unusual breadth of his work includes writing instruments, lighters, boats and even the Skytrain in Bangkok.
Dr Juergen Gessler - Porsche Design Group

[On Ferdinand Alexander ‘Butzi’ Porsche] Butzi was never in the race for the top because he was a designer and he was happy designing. He had no interest in running a company… He was an artist…
Ferdinand Piech

When children draw a car, they draw a Beetle; when they draw a fast car, they draw a flat Beetle, in other words, a Porsche.
Anonymous

A Porsche is like a drug. Once you try it, you’re hooked.
Wendelin Wiedeking – Porsche Chairman 1996

No one’s going to deprive me of the satisfaction of making Porsche profitable again.
Wendelin Wiedeking – Porsche Chairman 1996

The 911 is the only car that you can take from an African safari to Le Mans, then to the theatre, and after that, drive on the streets of New York.
Ferry Porsche

[On a 356 replacement design by Count Albrecht Goertz.] A beautiful Goertz, but not a Porsche.
Ferry Porsche

[On Piech and Porsche sibling rivalry.] After I ascertained that the necessary harmony and cooperation could not be created. I drew the inevitable conclusion and said, ‘Then nobody’s going to be the boss!’
Ferry Porsche



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