Quotes from Sergio Marchionne

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.

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.

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.

Most car advertising assumes that people have IQs that are missing a digit.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit.

Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous.

People don't like the car business. They like going to car sales, but they don't like the stock of the car companies.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

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.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them.

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.

You only produce one car less than the demand for the vehicle. You just don't exceed that equation.

International alliances reduce the cost of developing cars significantly.

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.