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Quotes from Sergio Marchionne

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.
~ Sergio Marchionne
The heart of Ferrari is winning in F1. I don't want to see our drivers in 7th and 12th place.
~ Sergio Marchionne
There are very few things that are certain in this market - apart from one, and that is that small displacement diesels are dead.
~ Sergio Marchionne
I like fast cars. I used to be a car buff before I went to Fiat.
~ Sergio Marchionne
There is nothing that would prevent Fiat Chrysler from providing ride-sharing service to a wider community and using our dealer network for this.
~ Sergio Marchionne
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
I'm a fixer by nature.
~ Sergio Marchionne
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.
~ Sergio Marchionne
If you look at Jeep, Ram, and the premium brands, those are brands that will survive.
~ Sergio Marchionne
I want to study theoretical physics because it is one of the hardest things there is.
~ Sergio Marchionne
You've got to allow people to make mistakes, even though your gut tells you that the guy is going to get torched.
~ Sergio Marchionne
If you're looking for power and handling, then I think Ferrari is the answer.
~ Sergio Marchionne
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.
~ Sergio Marchionne
If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster.
~ Sergio Marchionne
I am never on holiday.
~ Sergio Marchionne
I give people a huge amount of rope, and then I hold them accountable for the rope.
~ Sergio Marchionne
If I want to leave one thing here after I'm gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility.
~ Sergio Marchionne
better late than sorry.
~ Sergio Marchionne
Jeep represents a way of life. It's not just a car.
~ Sergio Marchionne
I think hybrids are inevitable. The question is not the technology: it's a question of the cost and whether the consumer will pay.
~ Sergio Marchionne
BlackBerrys are divine instruments.
~ Sergio Marchionne
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.
~ Sergio Marchionne
I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.
~ Sergio Marchionne
Leadership is not a quantitative thing. People either smell it in you, or they don't.
~ Sergio Marchionne