Wisdom in fragments

My father taught me an important lesson; when you get something, when you receive something, it's important to give back. This lesson is something that has really stuck with me through my whole life.

Founder and Chairman of Diesel fashion brand and Only The Brave Group

Sustainability is a state of mind – every day when my team are working, they must think about sustainability. We want to be 100% sustainable by 2030 – how can you talk about 2060 or 2080? The people making the promises will be dead by then. We must act now.

Founder and Chairman of Diesel fashion brand and Only The Brave Group

Industry and society today are one thing – it's the same business. You need to be close to humanity, have a soul, show blood. You must do the right thing, and you have to be transparent – it matters to the consumer, to the market, and to the team.

Founder and Chairman of Diesel fashion brand and Only The Brave Group

It's so important to be curious, and to have young people around you. These sources of inspiration can help you modify your vision, take different approaches, and make better business decisions.

Founder and Chairman of Diesel fashion brand and Only The Brave Group

I'm just a person who loves to do things before others. I try to do things before they become huge – I feel the market, the world, and try to be more-close to the world today. That's what I think it takes to be an entrepreneur.

Founder and Chairman of Diesel fashion brand and Only The Brave Group

Making mistakes is necessary- if you don't make mistakes, you can never grow. Every failure is a little lesson in how to be a winner. Failure is an opportunity to learn, to start again, to see problems, and find solutions. Failing may be the reason you win next time!

Founder and Chairman of Diesel fashion brand and Only The Brave Group

Fashion has always been a linear business terms of production, consumption and so-on. We need to move it from linear to circular to make it more sustainable.

40% of the total number of products bought in fashion eCommerce are never used, what a total waste.

In the last 20 years I believe I have become a hybrid entrepreneur – believing in the power of technology and process, but also in the very deep humanistic point of view. I guess it's a weird mix of Italian with Silicon Valley.

I invested most of our money, not in marketing, but in service. That was crucial to our early growth.

Today, we are asking the opposite question – will luxury brands continue to be sold offline? 20 years after we started, when people were suspicious about whether luxury brands could be sold on the internet, the opposite question is now the big consideration!

I guess that's been my biggest quality – to understand what customer's want, 3 or 4 years ahead of time. That's more or less probably my biggest quality as an entrepreneur.

Not only is it your responsibility as a business to look after your people, environment, community and world.... But if you don't have these kinds of conversations? Shame on you.

Founder and CEO of Chobani Greek Yogurt Company

The platform of business is one of the most amazing ways to change society, but I am telling you this as someone who grew up not liking the platform.

Founder and CEO of Chobani Greek Yogurt Company

The minute they had a job, the minute they started working, that's when they lost the sense of being a refugee and became part of the community. That was the moment they started to regain their dignity and became independent.

Founder and CEO of Chobani Greek Yogurt Company

I give all of you permission whereby, if I change the way I behave, my beliefs, the way we are going, I give you permission to hit me in my face, you need to bring me back to reality.

Founder and CEO of Chobani Greek Yogurt Company