Sergio Marchionne
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.Collection: Trust
Leadership is not a quantitative thing. People either smell it in you, or they don't.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Power
Don't believe your own press, and don't give speeches.
I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.
If you're looking for power and handling, then I think Ferrari is the answer.
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.
There's not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer.
I like simplicity almost to the point of being monastic.
I'm a fixer by nature.
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.
Being small, cute is going to do nothing.
It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.
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.
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 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.
There is nothing that would prevent Fiat Chrysler from providing ride-sharing service to a wider community and using our dealer network for this.
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.
There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.
People don't like the car business. They like going to car sales, but they don't like the stock of the car companies.
People are very focused on value and preservation of capital. They're a lot less risk-prone than they used to be.
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's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.
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.
I'm not really a late night guy. I used to be when I was younger.
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.
As much as I reiterate my affection for Elon, there is nothing Elon does that we cannot do.
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.
In the car business, sometimes you crash.
If I want to leave one thing here after I'm gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility.
Most car advertising assumes that people have IQs that are missing a digit.
I don't want to conquer North America. I only want a share.
Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me.
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.
Jeep represents a way of life. It's not just a car.
You only produce one car less than the demand for the vehicle. You just don't exceed that equation.
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.
It takes me exactly a minute and a half to get dressed in the morning.
All my bloody pants look the same; all my sweaters look the same. The shirts change; they're all blue.
I have the same clothing everywhere I live.
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.
I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.
There's a not a single doubt in my mind that the car that changed the conversation about Chrysler was the Grand Cherokee of 2010.