Quotes from Sergio Marchionne

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

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

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.

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

I love Obama to talk about Chrysler. It's the cheapest bloody advertising I can get.

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.

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.

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.

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

I just want to make things that people want to buy. I have no confusion about this.

Auto companies need to quickly separate the stuff that will be swallowed by commodity from the brand stuff.

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

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.

In the car business, sometimes you crash.

Being small, cute is going to do nothing.

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

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

The suggestion that we were pursuing consolidation as a replacement for reaching our financial targets by 2018 is fundamentally a bunch of hogwash.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.