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There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.
Sergio Marchionne
Life
Sit
Control
Victim
Nothing
Worse
Outside
Than
Process
Your
Jeep represents a way of life. It's not just a car.
Sergio Marchionne
Life
Car
Way
Just
Represents
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
Technology
Will
Inevitable
Pay
Think
Cost
Hybrid
Consumer
Question
Whether
I think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small.
Sergio Marchionne
World
Will
Power
Think
Small
Combustion
Likelihood
Continue
Very
Represent
Large
Unit
Large Portion
Portion
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.
Sergio Marchionne
Car
Weakest
Weakest Link
Embodied
Inside
Know-How
Ferrari
Link
Interface
Chain
Function
Technical
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.
Sergio Marchionne
Best
Technology
Light
Chrysler
Trucks
Were
Very
Fiat
Expertise
Fuel-Efficient
Engines
Assets
Thing
Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me.
Sergio Marchionne
Me
Will
Up
Board
Successor
Who
The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.
Sergio Marchionne
Job
Mesh
Getting
Personalities
Hardest
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
Few
Market
Small
Dead
Very
Few Things
Apart
Certain
Displacement
Things
Auto companies need to quickly separate the stuff that will be swallowed by commodity from the brand stuff.
Sergio Marchionne
Will
Stuff
Brand
Quickly
Auto
Commodity
Swallowed
Separate
Companies
Need
I'm a fixer by nature.
Sergio Marchionne
Nature
Fixer
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
Try
Wish
Think
Our
Unnecessarily
Part
Been
Maligned
Intent
Anybody
Desire
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.
Sergio Marchionne
You
Car
Rules
Those
Circumstances
Prevent
Exceptions
Operate
Operating
Got
Normal
Conditions
Very
Happening
Engine
Mechanisms
Specific
Things
Damage
Need
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.
Sergio Marchionne
Changes
President
President Obama
Completed
Obama
Objectives
Emissions
Put
Road
Clear
Road Map
Been
Review
Very
Place
Which
Required
Should
Standards
Agreed
Map
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
Fear
Decision
Will
Slow
Speed
See
Take
Takes
Make
Industry
Tesla
Rocket
Left
Very
Forever
Behind
Moves
Biggest
Us
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.
Sergio Marchionne
Noise
Will
Statements
About
Hybrid
Reluctant
Make
Industry
Go
Been
Very
Going
Where
Happen
Much
There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.
Sergio Marchionne
Confusion
Doubt
Definition
No Doubt
Causes
Traditional
Conglomerate
Standards
Manufacturing
As much as I reiterate my affection for Elon, there is nothing Elon does that we cannot do.
Sergio Marchionne
Affection
Nothing
We Cannot
Does
Cannot
Much
Most car advertising assumes that people have IQs that are missing a digit.
Sergio Marchionne
People
Car
Assumes
Missing
Most
Advertising
You only produce one car less than the demand for the vehicle. You just don't exceed that equation.
Sergio Marchionne
You
Car
Exceed
Only
Vehicle
Demand
Equation
Than
Just
Produce
Less
It takes me exactly a minute and a half to get dressed in the morning.
Sergio Marchionne
Morning
Me
Half
Exactly
Minute
Dressed
Takes
Get
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.
Sergio Marchionne
Negative
Country
Live
Significant
Having
Through
Had
Implications
Stereotyping
Period
Another
Am
Years
Years Ago
Integration
Undo
Effects
Efforts
Required
Aware
Number
I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.
Sergio Marchionne
Value
Nothing
Heritage
Attempt
Said
Proud
Am
Italian
Should
Interpreted
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.
Sergio Marchionne
Conversation
Car
Mind
Single
Doubt
Changed
Chrysler
About
Cherokee
Grand
The suggestion that we were pursuing consolidation as a replacement for reaching our financial targets by 2018 is fundamentally a bunch of hogwash.
Sergio Marchionne
Financial
Our
Consolidation
Pursuing
Reaching
Were
Replacement
Targets
Bunch
Hogwash
Fundamentally
Suggestion
I love Obama to talk about Chrysler. It's the cheapest bloody advertising I can get.
Sergio Marchionne
Love
Chrysler
Obama
About
Cheapest
Talk
Advertising
Bloody
Get
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