Independent Financing Over Subsidies

““I drew satisfaction, though, from being able to support myself without anyone’s help and without being,on the staff of some firm and paid for my work as I did it, and I found satisfaction in receiving a sum of money for a com- pleted 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.i ,”

“(1) It should be remembered that Ettore Bugatti built up his busi- ness and equipped his experimental workshops by his own unaided efforts. He never received subsidies of any kind, unlike his chief foreign competitors who were given considerable financial help by their gov- ernments, notably in Italy and Germany. As for his aeroengines, during the war, they had not brought him a fortune.”