I want to study theoretical physics because it is one of the hardest things there is.
— Sergio Marchionne
My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them.
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.
Leadership is not a quantitative thing. People either smell it in you, or they don't.
If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster.
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 just want to make things that people want to buy. I have no confusion about this.
I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit.
BlackBerrys are divine instruments.
It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.
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.
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.
It takes me exactly a minute and a half to get dressed in the morning.
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.
Being small, cute is going to do nothing.
I don't want to conquer North America. I only want a share.
Don't believe your own press, and don't give speeches.
I am never on holiday.
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.
Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous.
I think hybrids are inevitable. The question is not the technology: it's a question of the cost and whether the consumer will pay.
I just want to make a difference. I want to make Chrysler the most profitable car company in the United States.
I like fast cars. I used to be a car buff before I went to Fiat.
You've got to allow people to make mistakes, even though your gut tells you that the guy is going to get torched.
I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope.
I won't talk of bad luck. I don't believe in it.
There's not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer.
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 have the same clothing everywhere I live.
I like simplicity almost to the point of being monastic.
You only produce one car less than the demand for the vehicle. You just don't exceed that equation.
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.
Most car advertising assumes that people have IQs that are missing a digit.
In the car business, sometimes you crash.
FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.
The heart of Ferrari is winning in F1. I don't want to see our drivers in 7th and 12th place.
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.
There are very few things that are certain in this market - apart from one, and that is that small displacement diesels are dead.
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.
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.'
I love Obama to talk about Chrysler. It's the cheapest bloody advertising I can get.
The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.
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.
I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.
All my bloody pants look the same; all my sweaters look the same. The shirts change; they're all blue.
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.
Jeep represents a way of life. It's not just a car.
Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me.
If I want to leave one thing here after I'm gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility.
