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Sergio Marchionne

Sergio Marchionne

Italian Businessman

Born: Jun 17, 1952

Died: Jul 25, 2018

Car Nothing People Think Will You

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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.' Sergio Marchionne

You Money Half Sit Taxpayer Group Back Seven Look How Go Dollars Senators Just Want Lent Taxpayer Money Billion Billion Dollars Who Using Jerks Thing Last

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. Sergio Marchionne

If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster. Sergio Marchionne

You Faster Put Sticker Go Ferrari Any Toaster

Being small, cute is going to do nothing. Sergio Marchionne

Cute Nothing Small Going Being

If you look at Jeep, Ram, and the premium brands, those are brands that will survive. Sergio Marchionne

You Will Ram Those Look Survive Brands Premium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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