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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. "

Sergio Marchionne

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

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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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" I've always had this incredible sense of urgency. I've always had this desire not to let things fester and to really seize the moment, because it's serendipity. "

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" Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous. "

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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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" Most car advertising assumes that people have IQs that are missing a digit. "

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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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" The biggest fear that I see is that we will be left behind. We are a very slow industry; for us to make a decision takes forever. Take Tesla: Elon moves at the speed of a rocket. "

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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 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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" People need to trust you: that you're going to pull them out and that they will follow you when you pull them out. If they don't get that comfort, they're going to drop you. This is true of organizations. It's true of countries. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I am never on holiday. "

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

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" There's not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer. "

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

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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. "

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" I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value. "

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

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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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" Auto companies need to quickly separate the stuff that will be swallowed by commodity from the brand stuff. "

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

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" BlackBerrys are divine instruments. "

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" 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. "

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