Top 40 Sergio Marchionne Quotes

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

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.

BlackBerrys are divine instruments.

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.

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’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.

There’s not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I won’t talk of bad luck. I don’t believe in it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I don’t want to conquer North America. I only want a share.

I am never on holiday.

I’m a fixer by nature.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.

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 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.