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" 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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" 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

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Rocket

Slow

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh. "

" 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. "

" I am never on holiday. "

Sergio Marchionne

Never

Holiday

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 a not a single doubt in my mind that the car that changed the conversation about Chrysler was the Grand Cherokee of 2010. "

" 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. "

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

Sergio Marchionne

Sales

People

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

" 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. "

Sergio Marchionne

Going

Will

" I think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small. "

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

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

" If you look at Jeep, Ram, and the premium brands, those are brands that will survive. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Being small, cute is going to do nothing. "

" 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. "