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" I think hybrids are inevitable. The question is not the technology: it's a question of the cost and whether the consumer will pay. "

Sergio Marchionne

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" We have been very reluctant to make statements about where the industry is going to go. The Wrangler is going hybrid in 2020. We don't make much noise about that, but it will happen. "

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" In the car business, sometimes you crash. "

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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" I'm not really a late night guy. I used to be when I was younger. "

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" 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. "

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" The heart of Ferrari is winning in F1. I don't want to see our drivers in 7th and 12th place. "

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" I like simplicity almost to the point of being monastic. "

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" 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. "

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" I have been public on this, and I firmly, firmly believe that this notion of accountability for what you promise as a leader is as important as your integrity. "

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" I think we have been unnecessarily maligned with a desire or a wish or intent on our part to try to defraud anybody. We haven't. "

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

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" One of the things that unfortunately happens in organizations that become dysfunctional is that the very first thing to go is the amount of care and attention that you place on the workplace and the environment within which people work. "

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" Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me. "

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" Leadership is not a quantitative thing. People either smell it in you, or they don't. "

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" There are very few things that are certain in this market - apart from one, and that is that small displacement diesels are dead. "

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" Chrysler's best assets were its Jeeps, minivans, and light trucks. Fiat's expertise was in small-car technology and fuel-efficient engines, the very thing that Chrysler lacked. "

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

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" By 2025, more than half of the power units you see on the road will have some relevance of electrification. There may be a base combustion engine, but it is combustion and electrification that will make the machine run. "

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" 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. "

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" The HMI (human-machine interface) function inside a Ferrari is probably the weakest link in the chain of technical know-how that's embodied in the car. "

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" I love Obama to talk about Chrysler. It's the cheapest bloody advertising I can get. "

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

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" People don't like the car business. They like going to car sales, but they don't like the stock of the car companies. "

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" What is the point of one guy developing a 1.3 engine, and another guy a 1.4? What are you getting for this? And the answer is nothing: a total waste of capital. "

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" 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. "

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" You've got to allow people to make mistakes, even though your gut tells you that the guy is going to get torched. "

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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. "

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