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

" 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. "

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

" I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit. "

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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Sergio Marchionne

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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 nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a fixer by nature. "

Sergio Marchionne

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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. "

" You only produce one car less than the demand for the vehicle. You just don't exceed that equation. "

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