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.
Sergio Marchionne
If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster.
Leadership is not a quantitative thing. People either smell it in you, or they don't.
I'm a fixer by nature.
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.
I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope.
I just want to make a difference. I want to make Chrysler the most profitable car company in the United States.
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.
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.
If you're looking for power and handling, then I think Ferrari is the answer.
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 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.
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 think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small.
The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.
I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.
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.
I am never on holiday.
In the car business, sometimes you crash.
My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them.
Don't believe your own press, and don't give speeches.
The HMI (human-machine interface) function inside a Ferrari is probably the weakest link in the chain of technical know-how that's embodied in the car.
The heart of Ferrari is winning in F1. I don't want to see our drivers in 7th and 12th place.
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 no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.
You only produce one car less than the demand for the vehicle. You just don't exceed that equation.
People don't like the car business. They like going to car sales, but they don't like the stock of the car companies.
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 won't talk of bad luck. I don't believe in it.
There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.
There's not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer.
I like fast cars. I used to be a car buff before I went to Fiat.
Jeep represents a way of life. It's not just a car.
Being small, cute is going to do nothing.
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.
Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous.
BlackBerrys are divine instruments.
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.
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.
Auto companies need to quickly separate the stuff that will be swallowed by commodity from the brand stuff.
If you look at Jeep, Ram, and the premium brands, those are brands that will survive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.
People are very focused on value and preservation of capital. They're a lot less risk-prone than they used to be.
I'm not really a late night guy. I used to be when I was younger.
