Daily Inspiration Quote by Ferdinand Piech

That line lands with the cool menace of someone who’s survived boardrooms the way other people survive storms: by outlasting everyone else and quietly enjoying the fact. Piech isn’t describing adversity so much as establishing a hierarchy. “Quite a few people” is deliberately vague, a roll call of enemies he can’t be bothered to name. The point isn’t their identity; it’s their failure. “Tried to force me out” frames corporate conflict as expulsion, not disagreement, suggesting a world where power is physical, almost territorial. Then the closing clause - “but so far no one has succeeded” - turns the sentence into a dare. “So far” implies the attempts will continue, and that he expects to meet them with the same ruthless competence.

Context matters: Ferdinand Piech wasn’t a designer in the soft-focus sense of the word. He was the hard-edged engineering aristocracy of German industry, a Porsche descendant who helped shape Audi’s technical identity and later ruled Volkswagen with a mix of vision and intimidation. His legacy is inseparable from that culture of control: innovation driven by obsession, governance driven by dominance.

The intent is twofold: self-mythology and warning. He’s telling you he’s been targeted - therefore important - and that resistance has only proved his durability. It’s a power statement masquerading as a shrug, the kind of sentence that turns corporate politics into personal fate. In one breath, he recasts ambition as inevitability.