Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Ferdinand Porsche

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian designer Ferdinand Porsche.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian-born automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche AG. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner-Porsche), the Volkswagen Beetle, the Auto Union racing car, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, several other important developments and Porsche automobiles.

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. — © Ferdinand Porsche
I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
Good design should be honest.
A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.
Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult
Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value. If we learn from each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then at the end, we have fulfilled our potential and performed well.
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.
Porsche....there is no substitute
Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but rather live in fear of it's own potential
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