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" Back in 2005, I introduced a thing which, I don't mind saying this - I mean, we stole it, at least in its basic form, from Toyota - it's called World Class Manufacturing. I mean, it's this pretentious title for something which really involves the revisiting of the manufacturing processes of dedication to the removal of waste. "

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Sergio Marchionne

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" One of the most horrible wastes of capital you see is the duplication of the effort by the car manufacturers to do things that appear to be different from the other guy. "

" We've done all the work that needs to be done on the inside to make sure there's no malfeasance inside Chrysler. "

" I'm a phenomenal fan of Elon Musk. I think he's the greatest. He's a disrupter, and I think he is a great marketer. And I love him. "

" If you're looking for power and handling, then I think Ferrari is the answer. "

" I'm a fixer by nature. "

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" I think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small. "

" There's a not a single doubt in my mind that the car that changed the conversation about Chrysler was the Grand Cherokee of 2010. "

" It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley. "

" People are very focused on value and preservation of capital. They're a lot less risk-prone than they used to be. "

" If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster. "

" If you look at Jeep, Ram, and the premium brands, those are brands that will survive. "

" The suggestion that we were pursuing consolidation as a replacement for reaching our financial targets by 2018 is fundamentally a bunch of hogwash. "

" I want to study theoretical physics because it is one of the hardest things there is. "

" I like fast cars. I used to be a car buff before I went to Fiat. "

" Don't believe your own press, and don't give speeches. "

" I am totally in line with the fact that I think wealth distribution for carmakers needs to be redimensioned to allow labor to take a piece of that wealth distribution. "

" When we agreed to the changes in the emissions standards and the objectives for 2025 with President Obama, there was a very clear road map that was put in place that required a midterm review, which should have been completed by 2017 and '18. "

" The last thing you want is a group of senators who just lent you seven and a half billion dollars to sit back and go, 'Look at these jerks and how they're using taxpayer money.' "

" When I was young and foolish, and I had no money, I bought myself the carcass of a Jaguar E-Type. It was a rust bucket. I spent all my university savings trying to fix the car. I never did, and I finally sold it to recover at least part of my investment. "

" There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition. "

" I think that if you don't do the full analysis of what the origin of the electrical power is, where it comes from, how you get batteries into these cars, what the cost is in terms of CO2 and the environment, I think the analysis that we are going to save the planet with electric cars is nonsense. "

" Having had to live through a period of integration into another country a number of years ago, I am keenly aware of the negative implications of stereotyping and the significant efforts required to undo its effects. "

" I just want to make things that people want to buy. I have no confusion about this. "

" It is only proper that our employees share in the savings generated by tax reform and that we openly acknowledge the resulting improvement in the U.S. business environment by investing in our industrial footprint accordingly. "

" Jeep represents a way of life. It's not just a car. "

" When you got mechanisms in a car that prevent damage from happening to the engine and that operate under very specific circumstances, those things are exceptions under normal operating conditions of the car; under the rules, they need to be disclosed. "

" We have made the decision that we're going to take some key products, such as the Wrangler and the Grand Cherokee, and protect those as being true American icons: produce them in the U.S. and make them available nowhere else. "

" My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them. "

" All my bloody pants look the same; all my sweaters look the same. The shirts change; they're all blue. "