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" I won't talk of bad luck. I don't believe in it. "
Sergio Marchionne
Bad Luck
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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 heart of Ferrari is winning in F1. I don't want to see our drivers in 7th and 12th place. "
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Winning
Want
" Most car advertising assumes that people have IQs that are missing a digit. "
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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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World
Dedication
" It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley. "
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Against
Ourselves
" 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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Always
Desire
" 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. "
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Employees
Tax
Improvement
" I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit. "
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Act
Native
Like
" 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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Function
Inside
Car
" You only produce one car less than the demand for the vehicle. You just don't exceed that equation. "
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Only
You
" Don't believe your own press, and don't give speeches. "
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Speeches
Give
Believe
" 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. "
Sergio Marchionne
Fear
Rocket
Slow
" It takes me exactly a minute and a half to get dressed in the morning. "
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Dressed
Minute
Morning
" I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time. "
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Think
Time
I Think
" 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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Think
Wish
Desire
" 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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Think
Question
Technology
" I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope. "
Sergio Marchionne
Rope
People
Accountable
" 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. "
Sergio Marchionne
Environment
Place
Work
" There's not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer. "
Sergio Marchionne
Organization
Car
American
" 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. "
Sergio Marchionne
Need
Circumstances
Car
" 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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Going
Go
Will
" Auto companies need to quickly separate the stuff that will be swallowed by commodity from the brand stuff. "
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Separate
Need
Will
" 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
Less
Than
" 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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Make
Inside
Needs
" 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. "
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Key
American
Decision
" I don't want to conquer North America. I only want a share. "
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Want
Share
Only
" There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control. "
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Control
Victim
Process
" 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. "
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Think
Power
Nonsense
" 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 Am
Labor
Think
" 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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Standards
Changes
Road