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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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" 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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" I am never on holiday. "

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" It takes me exactly a minute and a half to get dressed in the morning. "

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

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

" I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope. "

" There is nothing that would prevent Fiat Chrysler from providing ride-sharing service to a wider community and using our dealer network for this. "

" I'm a fixer by nature. "

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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. "

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

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

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

" I just want to make a difference. I want to make Chrysler the most profitable car company in the United States. "

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

" 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. "

" BlackBerrys are divine instruments. "

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" FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music. "

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

" If I want to leave one thing here after I'm gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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

" Repatriating the Ram HD is the right thing to do... it should never have been moved to Mexico. This was owed to the U.S. government - and the taxpayers. "

" As much as I reiterate my affection for Elon, there is nothing Elon does that we cannot do. "