Paternalistic Covenant With the Valley

“"Essentially, the agreements with the workers are written in marble tablets: I give you everything, you give me everything," explains Camuffo, who has collected in a book the considerations of Del Vecchio about his entrepreneurial style.”

“He creates a team, takes on a group of very young boys and girls, kids who grow up with him, identify with the company, and he even puts them in competition with each other to always achieve the maximum. "We were four country boys, we were sixteen years old each," they tell me and still argue over why one of them did not go to the other's wedding in 1964. Del Vecchio demands a lot but he is also grateful, he never misses a payday, he never forgets an important occasion.”